PRAGUE (Sputnik) – Earlier on Sunday, British Prime Minister Theresa May stated that the government will trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and thus begin the process of leaving the European Union by late March 2017.
"Nobody from the United Kingdom has told us clearly, what the British are going to do… I do not know, if they actually do it [submit the application to leave the EU]. If this happens in the [time] period they talk about, [then] what way and stance they will choose," Zaoralek told journalists, adding that he believed that the British side would not rush into a decision on this issue.
According to the Article 50, each EU member state can leave the bloc. In order to start the process of leaving the European Union, a member state must formally inform Brussels about its intention and formally begin negotiations on the matter. The departing member is released from its obligations under EU treaties once a final agreement is reached with Brussels or — if no such deal is struck — two years after notification was first given.
