What Boris Brings

Perhaps the Brexit drama bores you. It has certainly been three years since the 2016 referendum on EU membership, without resolution. However, the theatre of doubt about the UK’s future within or outside of or balanced on the borders of the EU scheme is a reflection of the process of European integration; it concentrates all of the tensions which many EU countries feel about losing historic powers and sovereignty. The unity of the EU 27 is a fiction which makes the drama of Brexit possible (and even necessary).

You may have noticed that the UK has a new Prime Minister. Boris Johnson (part Turk, part Russian, part Brit) replaces the so-called ‚dancing queen‘ Theresa May, who lost the confidence of…