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To my knowledge, that question was raised before the referendum took

place, and I have to say that at that moment, I thought that I

understood at least politically it was not pursued, and probably the

British court did not refer to the European Court of Justice when those

issues were raised. But I think that legally there was a strong ardent in

that respect. If the UK citizens that are residing

in other member states, many of them did not have the right to vote in

the referendum. So in my view, they will have a stronger argument

invoking the way they lost, they will lose European citizenship,

because they will be forced to advocate from that censorship in

light of a decision-making in which they had no voice. So, for this

subset of citizens, I think there would have been a basis to challenge

a decision. It is not to say that a member state has no right to

withdraw, but to say, even a decision for a member state to

withdraw has to take Place in accordance with certain fundamental

principles, and one of them will be, for example, the right of

participation for all of citizens of the member states. They are not

deprived of that decision by the simple fact that they want to live

in another member state. If you think about that, that was the

crucial aspect. In my view, that in itself, legally, will be a strong

argument. I understand, politically at this point, it would be highly

unlikely that even the Court of Justice will accept to take the

decision. But in legal terms, I think there's a strong foundation in

that argument. There is one other possibility that is to have some UK

citizens may be maintaining sedition ship of the European Union and

others won't. -- citizenship. This is a bit of a provocation. Nothing

prevents a part of the United Kingdom to stay and another part to

leave. We have a president with that. It's called Greenland. We have

the case of one member state where part of its territory left the

European Union, and another part stayed. So in principle, nothing

will prevent for the territories, for example, of Northern Ireland and

Scotland to stay in the European Union, and for the rest of the

territory of the United Kingdom no longer to be part of the European

Union. Of course, this would be convex to organise in practice. It

will require Scotland and Ireland to remain part of the European Union

and part of the United Kingdom. But it will not be impossible. Still, it

would be again very problematic in political terms, and the

consequences of it will make it difficult. If you think about it, I

think on the one hand, one risk will be economic for the UK, because

naturally, you will have, for Scotland and Northern Ireland,

extremely positive. They will attract lots of investment and

companies that will locate in those territories because they will

benefit from those markets. But of course, for the rest of the United

Kingdom, it would be even more dramatic because there will be

its territory. For the European its territory. For the European

Union, the difficulty will be that if this will take place without the

UK formally leaving as a state, because part of its territory will

stay, in the same way that happened with Denmark and Greenland, it will

mean that a representation of that part of the territory will be made

by the UK Government, not by the Scottish and the Northern Ireland

government. Another point, because in terms of this to be then, without

living and coming in as Scotland and Northern Ireland, in terms of state

secession, the representation of this part of the territory will have

two be continued by the United Kingdom central government. Of

course, there will be the possibility to live as the UK and

come in as part of the UK. That will be another alternative.

On the question of the European Union citizens rights in the United

Kingdom, just a couple of issues, if we say that we are going to protect

the rights of those of European citizens that are currently in the

United Kingdom, what's the cut off date? Some people have said the date

of the referendum. Others have said the date when the exit agreement, or

the new agreement, or both...