The Brexit Negotiations: An Italian Perspective

Stefano Micossi and Riccardo Perissich

CEPS Papers from Centre for European Policy Studies

Abstract: This paper attempts to map out Italy’s interests in the forthcoming Brexit negotiations, based on a number of economic and political hypotheses regarding what the UK’s opening position might be. In recent years, Italy has become a country of emigration again, with qualified young people seeking better paid and more rewarding jobs elsewhere in the EU. For this reason, Italy will mount a strong defence of existing internal market rules as an inseparable set of principles. This is not to say that Italy will not be helpful in the forthcoming Brexit negotiations, but there will be strict limits to its flexibility. Concessions to the UK’s demands for restrictions on labour mobility for EU citizens are likely to be opposed. An earlier version of this paper appears as a chapter in a VOX e-book entitled: What To Do With the UK? EU Perspectives on Brexit edited by Charles Wyplosz, and is published here with the kind permission of VOX.

Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2016-10
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