The worst case scenario has now materialized. The United Kingdom is to leave the European Union. While the Brexit campaigners clearly failed to give sufficient consideration to the legal and economic consequences of this step, the European Union is also inadequately prepared for this scenario.
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Brexit is a done deal. Prime Minister Theresa May now faces the gargantuan task of negotiating the UK’s exit from the European Union. Disentangling the finely woven network of EU directives and regulations and national and EU law is certainly no mean feat.
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Winfried Menninghaus, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main, is studying how people react to poetry and prose, not only mentally but also physically.
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A conversation about the rights of children and democracy in schools with Lothar Krappmann, who worked at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Freie Universität in Berlin until 2001.
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UK votes to leave EU after dramatic night divides nation. What demographers have to say about Brexit and why migration research is top of the European agenda
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