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\u201cBehind the scenes everyone is quaking at the thought of the ‘unthinkable’\u201d,\u00a0writes<\/a>\u00a0Thomas Mayer in Austrian daily\u00a0Der Standard. According to the columnist, the EU is currently so unpopular in the UK that its top officials avoid to show up in Britain or to speak publicly in favor of Remain. As for the European governments it\u2019s even worse: Mayer believes that they \u201chave a lot of good reasons for wanting to keep London in; but\u201d, he adds, \u201cthey behave like they couldn\u2019t care less whatever the result is.\u201d<\/p>\n

In some countries, however, Brexit is seen as an opportunity rather than an issue. Like in Poland, as Marek A. Chicocki\u00a0writes<\/a>\u00a0in the Conservative daily\u00a0Rzeczpospolita: \u201cA Brexit would by no means spell the end for the Union but simply pave the way for its thorough overhaul. Poland is the biggest country outside the Eurozone, meaning that it would like to assume a more important role within the EU. So\u201d, he concludes, \u201clet us not regard a Brexit as a disaster but as a chance to bring our own ideas into this restructuring of the EU\u201d \u2013\u00a0if the EU survives, of course. Which would be all but certain according to\u00a0Bernardo Valli. In Rome\u2019s\u00a0La Repubblica, the veteran columnist\u00a0writes<\/a>\u00a0that a country leaving the EU \u201cwould shake the whole system\u201d: \u201cIt\u2019s easy to figure that, after Brexit Marine Le Pen will ask for Frexit. That would give her campaign for next year\u2019s presidential election an extraordinary boost. In Europe, movements that are allied or under the influence of Le Pen\u2019s Front National would be eager to follow her example.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some commentators consider that playing the scaremongering as the \u201cIn\u201d camp is doing is counter-productive. Like Ferreira Fernandes, a columnist within Portuguese daily\u00a0Diario de Not\u00edcias, who\u00a0believes<\/a>\u00a0that Bremainers \u201cmay be right\u201d when they talk about \u201cthe economic disaster that would ensue, the disinterest of Arab and Chinese investors and an isolated City of London and the retaliatory measures from Brussels\u201d should the \u201cOut\u201d win. But they \u201cshould also be able to present other convincing arguments, like political and cultural interests or Europe\u2019s common destiny\u201d \u2013\u00a0a point in which, \u00a0Bremainers \u201capparently don’t really believe in themselves.\u201d On an opposite position,\u00a0Le Mondethinks<\/a>\u00a0that Prime Minister David Cameron\u2019s tactics of\u00a0\u201csmashing Brexit under a carpet bombing of reports every time more alarming\u2026seems to work\u201d. But the \u201cIn\u201d needs to \u201ckeep the discussion on the economy\u201d and should not \u201cdrift into immigration\u201d. And even if it wins on the 23 June, troubles might not be over for the EU, as Mr Cameron \u201cwill want to foist his political agenda on Europe, with a revival of the single market, a de-bureaucratisation of the EU and a more active role for national parliaments.\u201d And, \u2013\u00a0something Paris might not be happy with \u2013\u00a0reinforce economic convergence between Germany and the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few European publications took a stance on the referendum. Among them, Der Spiegel even had two different covers: one in German saying \u201cBitte geht nicht!\u201d, another one in English saying \u201cPlease don\u2019t go!\u201d. \u201cIf Britain is clever, it will remain a member of the EU, because it will recognise that the future of the west is at stake. If Britain is clever, it will realise that it is not a world power on its own, that it will lose much with a yes to Brexit on June 23, and gain nothing but a brief moment of pride\u201d,\u00a0writes<\/a>\u00a0Hamburg\u2019s magazine. But should Britain vote to leave, \u201cbecause a disproportionately high number of older and less well-educated British want it so passionately, Germany and the rest of Europe will have to accept that today’s EU is dysfunctional and unattractive. The EU should then mourn the loss of departed Britain and learn from it, and it should cease giving humiliating gifts to those who have left and develop some resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Berlin\u2019s strong stance on avoiding Brexit by any means is explained by its concern that it \u201cwould lead to a breakdown of the project of Eropean integration\u201d,\u00a0says<\/a>\u00a0Dutch magazine\u00a0Elsevier, according to which, \u201cthe traditional \u2018big three\u2019 of the EU (Germany, France and the UK) could be out of balance if the UK were to leave. Germany fears that this could lead to a surge in power for France and that other countries would want to follow the British example.\u201d What\u2019s more,\u00a0Elsevier\u00a0adds, \u201cthe European Central Bank considers Brexit as a threat, both for the Union and the UK itself.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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