The European Union has never tolerated democracy. It preaches it to its member states and lectures about it to the world at large but never allows the principle to interfere with its own self-interest. When confronted by any national referendum result that doesn’t go its way, Brussels’ standard operating procedure is to relentlessly pressure the member-state to hold another.
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