Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

It's Time for Europeans to Take a Stand

Britons voted to leave the fold. That starts a whole new debate.

June 24, 2016 at 8:50 AM UTC

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

Europe must move on.
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"Please tell me I'm still sleeping and this is all just a bad nightmare," former Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb tweeted after waking up to the U.K. referendum results. It feels like a betrayal, but it's really a wake-up call. The millions of Britons who on Thursday voted their distrust of the European Union are not the only Europeans who feel that way. The EU must rethink itself or perish.

QuickTake Britain Voted to Leave the EU