Up the creek without a paddle for years?
Two EU sources familiar with the bloc's latest thinking on a possible Brexit told Reuters on Thursday there was no appetite to grant any extension of the two years provided by the EU's Lisbon Treaty for negotiating a withdrawal, while any new trade partnership would take many more years to conclude. The stark view from Brussels means Britain could initially be cut adrift without any preferential relationship with its biggest trade partner: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-divorce-exclusive-idUSKCN0XP27S Energy policies would be rolled back, demand for environmental experts would drop and Britain's voice in global climate change talks would be lost if it votes to leave the EU, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas told EurActiv's partner edie.net in an exclusive interview: http://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/uk-mp-worrying-link-between-leave-camp-and-climate-change-denial/ [UK farmers] are weighing the opportunity [of the EU referendum] to gain more local control of their bus
