Following a referendum on 23 June, 2016 in which British
citizens voted to leave the European Union (EU), the UK initiated
the EU withdrawal procedure under Article 50 of the Treaty on
European Union and is currently scheduled to leave the EU on 29
March, 2019.
This decision has generated legal and economic uncertainty for
EU Member States and there have been lengthy negotiations between
the UK and the EU since Article 50 was invoked.
An agreement was reached between the UK and the EU on 25
November, 2018 but it was rejected on 15 January, 2019 by the UK
Parliament. France, meanwhile, has prepared a legal framework to
deal with the possibility of a "no deal Brexit".
On 3 October, 2018, the French government presented a bill
authorizing the government to take the necessary measures in a wide
variety of areas including the following:
