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This week divorcing Europe, originally broadcast in November 2009, what would happen if Britain chose

to leave the European Union.

The Lisbon Treaty contains a clause setting out an exit process

but as Chris Bolby reports,

the final deal between Britain and its former EU partners would depend a lot on the mood of their divorce find the full text of the Lisbon Treaty.

It might not be your idea of a page turner or mine, but there is, buried within it, something

really surprising. If I scroll down and here we are. Here's a section saying any member state may decide to withdraw from the union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements.

And it goes on to talk about the state notifying the European Council,

there'll have to be negotiations, maybe two years or more.

The European Parliament has a say as well.

The Lisbon Treaty is the latest great EU landmark.

Depending on your point of view, it either modernizes and democratizes the Union

or paves the way for an authoritarian super-state.

So why include a kind of anti-integration time bomb, a clause here that sets out clearly for the first time how a country could quit?

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