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BreEntry? Czech President Says Britain May Return to EU in 20 Years

© AFP 2023 / Daniel Leal-OlivasPeople hold Union Flags and the EU flag at a kiss chain event organised by pro-Europe 'remain' campaigners seeking to avoid a Brexit in the EU referendum in Parliament Square in front of the Houses of Parliament in central London on June 19, 2016.
People hold Union Flags and the EU flag at a kiss chain event organised by pro-Europe 'remain' campaigners seeking to avoid a Brexit in the EU referendum in Parliament Square in front of the Houses of Parliament in central London on June 19, 2016. - Sputnik International
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Czech President Milos Zeman has predicted that the United Kingdom could reenter the European Union in the next two decades.

PRAGUE (Sputnik) — It is unlikely that the European Union is going to fall apart soon, on the contrary, the return of Britain to the bloc is possible, Zeman said Sunday.

"I believe in the future of the European Union. I do not think it will fall apart. In the course of the next, say, 20 years even Britain may reenter it. But it will be a different European Union," Zeman said as broadcast by local TV channel Blesk.

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The Czech president thinks that in the future the European Union would stop interfering in internal affairs of its members and will aim for "the Scandinavian model of a social state."

The United Kingdom is expected to begin the formal process of withdrawal from the European Union by the end of March after London invokes the exit clause of the EU treaty. The UK-EU negotiating process is scheduled to last two years. An informal EU meeting is set for February 3 in Malta, where 27 EU leaders will discuss Brexit without the United Kingdom's participation.

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