Brussels (AP) – the highest court of EU ruled on Monday that Britain can change your mind about the Brexit, giving hope to those who wish that the country stays on the block that e l process can be reversed. The European Court of Justice said that when a Member State of the EU has notified its intentions to leave, “that country is free to unilaterally revoke such notification”. Britain voted in 2016 to allow the bloc to 28 Nations and invoked the article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon in March 2017, thereby unleashing the output process.
The Prime Minister of Great Britain, Theresa May (Center), answers to lawmakers during a session of control to the Government in the House of Commons, London, 5 December 2018. (British Parliament, Mark Duffy via AP)
Article 50 has few details, in part because the idea of a country leaving e block was considered unlikely. A group of Scottish lawmakers had asked the Court that it fails over if the United Kingdom could withdraw on your own the separation process. The Court, based in Luxembourg, said that given the absence of a specific output clause in article 50, the countries could change your mind in accordance with their own constitutional arrangements and that this “reflects a sovereign decision”. The British Government has the right to do so provided an exit agreement has not entered into force. The first British Minister Theresa May has reiterated that his Government does not plan to delay or reverse the Brexit.
But the Court’s ruling is another headache for May while it works to get the approval of the face in a crucial vote scheduled for Tuesday on the separation agreement he reached with the EU.
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