Brexit: What Europe Wants

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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How political forces in other countries will shape any future UK-EU deal.

As a younger man, Anand Menon spent a care-free summer Inter-railing around Europe. Some decades later, and now a professor of European politics, he's taking to the rails again - this time with a more specific purpose. While British ministers squabble over what they want for a post-Brexit UK, less attention is paid to the other 27 countries in the negotiations. Each can veto any long-term deal between Britain and the European Union. And each, critically, has its own politics to worry about. Professor Menon visits four European countries where politicians will face their electorates next year. What forces will decide their political survival? And how will those forces shape the EU's future relationship with the UK?

Producer: Simon Maybin.

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading analysis from the BBC. This week we're on the road finding out what Europe wants from Brexit.
0:07.0	So pack your bags, hold onto your hats and join Arnan Menon. Back when there was good music in the charts my mates and I got into interrailing and
0:19.2	this was our song. It was cheap and crucially required little in the way of organisation. Had I realized
0:32.3	it it would also have been a great way to learn
0:34.7	about the politics of other European countries. But let's face it, my 20-year-old
0:39.9	mind was on other things in those days. And I could do with that knowledge now. Following
0:47.0	our vote to leave the European Union, other European states will be crucial in deciding our
0:51.6	future relationship with the EU.
0:54.1	And politics will have a crucial part to play in shaping what they think.
0:58.1	Maybe you don't know your VVD from your LR or your CDU from your CSSD, but these political parties will all have a say over the UK's future.
1:07.0	I'm Arden Menon, now a professor at King's College in London, and in this edition of analysis, I want to find out how politics in other
1:14.5	EU countries might affect the negotiations to come and how specifically they'll
1:18.9	shape the deal we in Britain end up with. So, now, final check-in for train 9148, the 1704 departure to lean and
1:39.2	So now 30 years later I'm off again on the channel tunnel this time rather than on a ferry which is nice And wheeling a bag rather than hefting a rucksack over my shoulder as I used to have to do.
1:44.0	But I'm on the road again to time. Four countries with elections next year
2:05.0	where political careers hang in the balance and where politics will shape attitudes to everything,
2:09.8	us included.
2:11.2	First stop, the Dutch capital.
2:14.0	The Hague is a quiet, friendly sort of place, and Dutch governments have generally been close allies of the UK.
2:23.0	But following our referendum, the message from the Dutch Prime Minister was anything but supportive.
2:28.0	We could only only over monetary, economic and constitutional crisis were
2:32.6	at a moment.
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