Brexit: a European Odyssey
Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff talk to Kalypso Nicolaïdis, author of Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit. Together they discuss
In June 2016, 17.4 million people voted to leave the European Union. Since then, Brexit has descended into a complicated and polarising melodrama. But beyond the technical and cultural battlefields, what does Brexit actually mean, not just for Britain for the EU too? And what does it tell us about Brussels?
This week, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff sit down with Kalypso Nicolaïdis, author of Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit. Together they discuss the mythology that binds Britain to continental Europe
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