What now? Options for Brexit - And a cry for help. EPC Discussion Paper, 15 June 2017

At least as far as the British side were concerned, the Brexit process had been stagnating ever since Theresa May had invoked Article 50 on 29 March. There was even a sense of anti-climax. The UK gave no official reaction to the publication by the European Council of its guidelines for Brexit on 29 April or to the settling of the detailed negotiating directives of the European Commission on 22 May. The general election of 8 June, therefore, has delivered some shock therapy