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“It is a very bold step,” said Camino Mortera-Martinez, a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform in Brussels, describing the ruling as a landmark decision, if also a political and pragmatic one. “Recently we have seen the court being much more attentive to the political winds rather than being so legalistic, because of the recognition that the E.U. is at risk of collapse.”

"The thing historians will think quite strange is that, given that there's no majority in the country and no majority in parliament for a hard Brexit, how are we getting a hard Brexit?" said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform. "The answer is there's no opposition and the Tory party, although a lot of it is quite soft, they are very scared of the eurosceptic newspaper groups."

Rem Korteweg, a senior research fellow at the CER, believes that Mr Wilders wins even if he loses. Put another way, a fractured, fragile pro-EU centrist establishment loses even if it wins, as France could be about to discover. “If the alternative to a Wilders-led government is a period of prolonged political instability, the odds of him returning with even more seats next time around would increase,” he said. “Keeping him out of government could then become very difficult indeed.”

The director of an influential research group has said that Scotland can run its own migration system without jeopardising free movement with the rest of the UK. Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, said that rules could regulate workers rights through the tax system rather than through border checks. An expert on Russia, China, global governance, and UK-EU relations, Grant has been an important voice in the debate following the vote in England and Wales to exit the European Union in June 2016. Responding to claims that devolving migration would mean border problems fo

Holanda considera que ahora en la UE “tiene menos voz que algunos de los nuevos miembros, y sin embargo es uno de los mayores contribuyentes per cápita al presupuesto comunitario”, en palabras de Rem Korteweg, experto del 'think tank' Centre for European Reform.

“The West’s policy towards eastern Europe so far has been one of relatively benign indecision,” Ian Bond* writes in a report for the Centre for European Reform think-tank. “When NATO leaders continue to proclaim that the alliance has an open door, or when the EU says ambiguously that its association agreement with Ukraine ‘does not constitute the final goal in EU-Ukraine co-operation’, they raise hopes in eastern Europe and fears in the Kremlin that are divorced from reality.”

- Tego typu argument może zirytować partnerów europejskich. Ostatecznie decyzja o tym, czy uwzględnić go, czy doprowadzić do głosowania będzie należeć do państwa sprawującego prezydencję, czyli Malty - mówi WP Agata Gostyńska, ekspert instytutu Centre for European Reform w Londynie.

Zdaniem analityczki z Centre for European Reform Agaty Gostyńskiej-Jakubowskiej, możliwe jest, że kiedyś dojdzie do zmiany regulacji zapisanych w traktacie lizbońskim, ale - jak zauważyła - nie ma obecnie klimatu politycznego w Europie do nowelizacji traktatów.