The beginning of Brexit

At the stroke of midnight in Brussels, Britain will officially leave the European Union, setting off negotiations in which London will seek to gain as many benefits as it can from the Union. At the same time, it will work toward bilateral agreements with EU member-states and countries outside the bloc.

As the British prime minister is in a hurry for the transition period to end on December 31, an agreement will have to be reached by mid-October, so as to leave time for this to be translated into the official languages of the Union's member-states and to be ratified by their parliaments. Brexit, then, is not the end, a happy divorce after 45 years of coexistence, it is the beginning of an end that remains unpredictable.

The Brexit brotherhood did not brief their followers that Britain would have to negotiate from a very weak position, that the agreement with the EU...