AI presents a ‘Brexit opportunity’ for Britain but there are risks

For Charles Grant, the director of the Centre for European Reform think-tank, the findings show that Euroscepticism is “alive and kicking” in France and Italy. And that can also be seen in the dominance of eurosceptic parties in the Italian government and the fact that Marine Le Pen is favourite to win the next French presidential election.  As Grant observes, such attitudes beg a much deeper question about the viability of EU enlargement: “All this bodes ill for the Franco-German plan that the EU should enlarge in parallel with reforms to make the institutions more integrated. A majority of French and Italian voters do not want a more integrated EU, which means that one must question whether enlargement will really happen.”