{"id":4848,"date":"2017-01-05T07:47:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T12:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2017-01-05T07:47:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T12:47:20","slug":"key-brexit-dates-and-information-about-article-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/01\/05\/key-brexit-dates-and-information-about-article-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Brexit Dates and Information about Article 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Key Brexit dates:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>January 2017: Supreme Court expected to deliver its ruling on whether Theresa May has the power to trigger Article 50 using a royal prerogative, rather than by an Act of Parliament<\/li>\n<li>March 31, 2017: Deadline Mrs May has set for invoking Article 50 by notifying the European Council of Britain\u2019s intention to leave the EU<\/li>\n<li>September 30, 2018: Date by which EU\u2019s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, wants to wrap up terms of Britain\u2019s exit from the Union<\/li>\n<li>March 31, 2019: Date by which Theresa May wants to wrap up negotiations over Brexit<\/li>\n<li>May 2019? Britain formally exits the EU, following ratification of Brexit by all other member states<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> What is Article 50?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon gives any EU member the right to quit unilaterally, and outlines the procedure for doing so<\/li>\n<li>There was no way to legally leave the EU before the Treaty was signed in 2007<\/li>\n<li>Gives the leaving country two years to negotiate an exit deal<\/li>\n<li>Once set in motion, it cannot be stopped except by unanimous consent of all member states<\/li>\n<li>Any deal must be approved by a \u201cqualified majority\u201d of EU member states and can be vetoed by the European Parliament<\/li>\n<li>In November 2016, the High Court ruled that the Government cannot trigger Article 50 without MPs voting on the matter first<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/01\/05\/project-fear-brexit-predictions-flawed-partisan-new-study-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Key Brexit dates:\u00a0 January 2017: Supreme Court expected to deliver its ruling on whether Theresa May has the power to trigger Article 50 using a royal prerogative, rather than by an Act of Parliament March <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/01\/05\/key-brexit-dates-and-information-about-article-50\/\" title=\"Key Brexit Dates and Information about Article 50\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[541,1453],"class_list":{"0":"post-4848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-uk","9":"tag-article-50","10":"tag-brexit","11":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4849,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions\/4849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}