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Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, ekspert i bl.a. EU’s institutioner i Centre for European Reform i London, er enig. "Jeg tror ikke, at Brexit vil fremme eurozoneintegrationen. Vi så hvordan landene i eurozonen ikke kunne blive enige om, hvordan de bedst kom ud af det økonomiske hængedynd. Der er ikke noget fælles standpunkt,"siger hun, men erkender, at der bl.a. i hendes hjemland Polen er en frygt for, at Brexit vil føre til "tysk dominans". 

As Sophia Besch and her colleagues at CER have made clear, Brexit will lay bare Franco-German divisions in areas in which the UK provided a useful third party. Paris and Berlin will need to engage directly with each other in order to make strategic decisions on the future of the single market, the EU budget and EU defence.

Appearing on Sky News to comment on the results of the Austrian elections director of foreign policy Ian Bond argued that "this confirms what we already knew - that it is very easy to play on fears of migration to gain support for right wing populist parties".

Appearing on Sky's Murnahan Show to comment on the referendum campaign the CER's director Charles Grant, argued that Remain have a much harder argument to make than the Leave side, he said "the international outlook also doesn't help".
Grant also warned that "project fear and the economic arguments are getting to some people but not the young, and if they don't turn out to vote Leave will win."
Grant went on to add: "Remain has to get a lot better at rebutting myths like Turkey joining, quickly and effectively."

"The populists are able to tap into a sense of frustration in many voters that the kind of middle-class lives and middle-class jobs people used to have aren’t there anymore," said Ian Bond, a London-based director at the Centre for European Reform. "It's the sense that inequality is growing and that while the rich recovered, everybody else was left behind."

John Springford, an economist with the Centre for European Reform, the total cost of those tariffs [on UK goods and it exported into the EU] would be large, ranging from a 2.2 per cent of GDP (£40 billion) to 9 per cent.

Other, smaller Dutch parties, including the Socialists and Voor Nederland, were prominent in the victorious no campaign in the Dutch referendum on Ukraine. They are likely to “make statements praising the benefits of Brexit for the Dutch debate”, says Rem Korteweg at the Centre for European Reform.