New Yorker Nails Brexit

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13. I don't know much about it.

I certainly have not understood EU to be an actual sovereign state; rather, as something more like UN members who have ratified mutually binding treaties. I suppose I don't get why unilateral withdrawal from such an arrangement would necessarily create such adverse impacts.

Also, I understand that the state that are parties to EU haven't fully surrendered their national sovereignty, which is one reason that states are free to unilaterally leave the organization. I can imagine that additional states may opt to leave under certain conditions.