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THE UK HAS spoken and the country is leaving the European Union. So what happens now?
10am:
Top EU officials met in Brussels at 8.30am today and they are expected to make a statement to the press this morning.
EU President Donald Tusk, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, European Parliament head Martin Schulz and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte – whose country holds the six-month EU presidency – all met this morning to discuss the outcome of the referendum.
The Irish cabinet also met at 10am to reflect on how the result will affect Ireland.
After 11am:
Taoiseach Enda Kenny will make a public statement on the Brexit result after the cabinet meeting.
Later today:
With the stability of the global economy at risk, the European Central Bank is widely expected to make a statement to reassure markets.
Markets have reacted overwhelmingly negatively to the uncertainty being faced as Britain heads out of the union.
The pound has dipped to its lowest point since 1985.
Predictions in London suggest that today could be the fifth-biggest drop in UK stock market history.
Tomorrow
Foreign ministers from the EU’s six founding countries – France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg – are expected to meet on Saturday in Berlin to discuss the fallout from the result, according to European sources.
All EU leaders want the UK to stay in the bloc and a Leave vote has been met with dismay across Europe.
This weekend or Monday 27 June:
A special sitting of the UK parliament is expected to take place to start planning a Brexit. This is likely to occur on Monday or over the weekend if MPs demand an emergency sitting.
Prime Minister David Cameron has announced he will step down by October, when the Conservative conference takes place.
This is despite calls from pro-Leave conservatives Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, who urged Cameron to stay on in spite of the result. One of these men are now likely to be tipped as the party’s next leader and therefore the country’s next prime minister.
Monday 27 June:
Also on Monday, the European Commission’s top officials, who are nominated by the EU’s 28 member states, begin mapping out the long road to an official Brexit at an extraordinary meeting in Brussels.
MEPs have also called for an extraordinary session of the European Parliament to be held in Brussels on Monday in the case of a Brexit vote.
France President Francoise Hollande is also expected to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss “European initiatives”.
The Merkel Hollande meet-up could be the occasion to announce plans for a long-rumoured Franco-German initiative on a better integrated defence and security strategy for Europe.
The leaders are seeking to use the plan to dispel doubts on the EU project unleashed by the British Leave campaign.
Tuesday, 28 June:
The 28 EU leaders – including Cameron – will meet for a two-day EU summit in Brussels to digest and debate the results
It was originally due to be held on 23 June, but it was postponed after the British referendum date was announced.
1 July
The Netherlands will hand over the EU’s six-month rotating presidency to the relatively-inexperienced Slovakia, which must now lead the negotiations towards Brexit.
Britain had been due to take the helm at the end of 2017, but that won’t be happening now.
The coming weeks and months…
Cameron may trigger Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, officially notifying EU leaders of Britain’s intention to leave.
Prior to the referendum, Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, indicated this could take place within two weeks.
But Leave campaigners Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have said there is no need to trigger Article 50 immediately. They have said this need only take place after extensive informal talks with other EU members.
EU civil servants are expected to delay their summer holidays to begin the painstaking legal work to bring about a Brexit.
…And years
Once Article 50 is triggered, Britain has a two-year window to complete negotiations over the terms of exit, although this period could be extended.
Quitting the EU is not an automatic process – it has to be negotiated with the remaining members.
And EU president Donald Tusk has warned that the whole process of negotiating trade and immigration deals with a non-EU Britain could take seven years in all.
Additional reporting - © AFP 2016
It’s 2014 and people still don’t take videos in landscape mode….
It should be a crime punishable by death.
That helps my fear of flying
Pussies
“We were eating and all the food just flew up in the air and pretty much bounced off and fell,”
Whatever you might say about them, Americans never lose their sense of priority.
Judging by what I’m seeing around Dublin this week I’d say Irish people have similar priorities.
Prayers are great for turbulence and bad wind I find…
Imagine if the lights were off and the cabin was black. Now that would be scary. Scientific weather planes fly into hurricanes. Turbulance does not really effect the performance of an airplane, tis a bit like a car driving on unpaved really uneven ground. Saying that I would be defo a little nervous if twas me there.
Doesn’t help my fear either and I don’t care how brave you think you are at flying, when you are in a plane that is flying through severe turbulence or being struck by lightning it’s bloody frightening and you will remember every time you get on a plane after that. I always say that it’s not a plane crash that scares me, it’s turbulence and what you go through while it’s happening, horrible….
While everybody around him prayed to their gods and made promises about what they’d do if they got out of this alive, camera guy was praying to the god of youtube views
‘C’MON BABY! LAND THIS BIRD! GIMME THEM LIKES N SHAAARESZ!’
Brilliant, Cap’n!
Thank you, Mary!
All the same, it proves just how robust these aircraft really are. I do feel sorry for people who are a tad nervous flying, turbulence like this must be terrifying.
I’d s##t my pants if i was on that plane.
The engineering that goes into commercial airplanes will easily handle such perceived violent levels of turbulence, such as in this video. Modern plane structures are built to handle ferocious forces up to 150% stronger than any wind pattern experienced in the last 40 years of flying, and that includes any lightening strikes.
I just wasted 3 minutes of my life FFS !!
Fxxk me, that’s terrifying and brings back memories from the early 80′s of travelling to school on the old CIE bone shaker busses, I made need counselling
It will be alri ted is out on the wing with the sticky tape
News just in: the number of aircraft that have crashed due to turbulence has been found to be ZERO.
In the history of air travel no plane has ever crashed due to turbulence. Still it seems like they had a scary experience.
Mind you, it sounds like one mad aul wan doing all the roaring.
Ps- pilots rock
Cough, cough… this Air France crash in 2009 had nothing to do with turbulence! It resulted from how the cockpit crew dealt with a blocked pitot tube which is a sensor and sends speed data to the pilot’s instrumentation. The crash was a result of how the pilots dealt with faulty instrumentation and poor cockpit communication. The only other accident cited is a BOAC plane in 1966, 48 years ago! Your link only validates Steven’s point that 1, crashes are rare, and 2. Turbulence plays a miniscule part in modern aviation, unless you want to include windsheer on descent. Turbulence is a part of every flight. You’d need to go back decades to find incidences of turbulence directly resulting in the loss of a large aircraft.
Terrifying stuff. Even worse if your family was on board but you were seated away from them
A bit of communication from the folk in the pointy bit would have calmed the passengers.
Imagine sitting there not knowing if the next bump was a mountain …
Exactly what I was thinking. The captain should have been reassuring passengers to keep them calm. Not doing his job very well.
Oh dear he might have been to busy making a difficult emergency landing…
He landed the bleedin thing you nut.
Would u like him to come out and rub people’s foreheads as well?
Emergency landing? Its severe turbulence. Any pilot worth his salt would be well used to this scenario. Most passengers only experience light to moderate turbulence so that is why it can be scary for them (understandably). Planes these days are built to withstand extreme turbulence. This probably happens quite regularly but nobody videos it. The pilot should have reassured people over the intercom. The media doesn’t help with dramatic emergency landing headlines.
Some right smug condescending smartarses out today.
The people that are paid to fly the effin thing might know what they are at and smug f****** like you might know what they are at but there are nervous passengers that clench at every bump.
Think before you type.
I experienced this turbulence before coming home from new york absolutely cacked myself, last transatlantic flight I’ve took.
Drinks trolley would be the only thing on my mind
And 2 parachutes ??
I’ve created more turbulence in an Irish pub with rear end gaseous emissions then these screaming hyenas have had to endure here.
At 2.02 in the video… “Why is he not talking to us?”..maybe it’s because he’s trying his hardest to fight the turbulence and not let the plane fly out of control??????!!!!
The video is towards the end of the turbulence after the Captain had made the decision to divert to Japan out of the storm. Pilots rarely ‘fight’ poor conditions in manual flight mode. That’s stuff for the movies. They leave it to the FMS Auto Pilots which combined usually work far better at controlling an aircraft’s speed, altitude and balance. In fact some airline procedures prohibit the pilots from taking manual control unless the auto pilot kicks outs during flight.
Sounds more like a big orgy with all the noises…
I’d say the stench was rotten after that
Probably have prayed myself,even though I don’t believe in any God.
Recorded with a potato .
Recorded by a potato. ..
Regardless of whether the seat belt sign goes off while flying I always leave it on while seated,The reason being CAT (Clear Air Turbulence ) it cannot be picked up by radar.
Normally it occurs over large mountain ranges and can make a plane drop suddenly,Lifting people out of their seats hitting the overhead luggage bins.
Even in the cruise flight crews leave the lap belt on at the pointy end.
Normally CAT would have been reported by other planes on the same route
*I’m going to die. Quick get the camera. One to look back on in years to come eh? Oh wait…*
‘Twas a rollercoaster of a ride
I bet half of you pussies would shit your pants if this happened, big men behind the computer…priceless
Maybe it was caused by the lad who had his phone turned on and recording a video during the flight????
I was kinda hoping someone would go for a pee but it might have ruined the camera guys big moment.
They say flying is the safest form of transport but yet I’ve been watching Air Crash Investigation on a daily basis for a couple of years now !
imagine watching car crash investigation so.
Link to the video ? The one in the article says it’s been removed by user,
I’m terrified of flying. I’ve flown a good deal around the world none the less. I’ve got claustrophobia to, that doesnt help. Flying is hours of sheer scary boredom where you feel every bump and turn and can sense the changes in speed and direction. Other people panicking when you hit turbulence is the worst, panic spreads in such a confined space. You need the pilot to explain what is happening and his reassurance that it isnt as bad or as dangerous as how it feels. Flown to Cuba twice, on 3 of the 4 flights there were quite scary incidents. Every time i get off a plane i swear i’ll never get on another one.
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