Reply to post: Re: Brexit means Brexit

UK membership of Council of Europe has implications for data protection after Brexit

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Brexit means Brexit

"They have a strong incentive to make it suck for the UK as much as possible, as a warning to the rest."

On the other hand, the UK is the second largest economy in the EU and one of the major trading partners, and the EU can't really afford to screw with that relationship too much. If it had been Portugal or Greece, then it would be much, much less of an issue and they could "make an example" of them if one or both had voted to leave.

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