“There must be and will be a noticeable difference between whether a country wants to be a member of the European Union family or not,” Ms. Merkel said. “Between your countries and my country, we do an enormous amount of business in goods and services,” he told the European Parliament. Britain has to tell the rest of the European Union “that it wants to end its membership,” she said. He said there were strong reasons for the European Union to maintain ties to Britain after it leaves the bloc. “To those who never ceased to proclaim that the European Union was irreversible, the British people have provided a biting refutation.

Source: New York Times June 28, 2016 11:04 UTC