With European solidarity impaled on the coronavirus epidemic, talk of Frexit is surfacing again. But how could Frexit be organised? Like Britain, France would activate Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to begin the process of leaving the European Union. But how does one leave the single currency? Brussels, which existentially regulates for everything, does not say and the 3000 page Lisbon Treaty is silent on the subject.
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John Keiger is professor of international history and the biographer of the French political leader Raymond Poincaré, (Cambridge University Press, 2001) who in 1914 took France off the gold standard and brought her back on to it in 1928
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