British European Citizenship — A Way Forward?

James Barisic
3 min readJan 15, 2020

Back in 2016, Britain voted (with generous help from overseas benefactors) to leave the European Union and, ever since, verciferous pro-European remainers have tried to come up with ways to preserve their rights — and there is one workable solution that could just work.

Some months ago, a proposal was put forward to allow all British citizens to retain their European citizenship on a voluntary and associate basis. This was taken up, in typically generous style, by Belgian MEP, Guy Verhofstadt. His assertion that “citizens can never become the victims…

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James Barisic

Entrepreneur. Lecturer in Digital Business at the Grenoble Ecole de Management. Digital. Political. European. Keeper of chickens & rabbits. Views my own.