RantCrush Top 5: March 29, 2017

Today, the United Kingdom took the first formal step toward Brexit by triggering Article 50, the formal mechanism for any country wishing to leave the European Union. The process to take the UK out of the EU will be long and, for many people, painful. Negotiations must be completed within two years, but no one really knows what the rest of the process is going to be like, as no country has ever left the EU before.

About half of the country voted to stay, including the majority of Scotland, which is now weighing the possibility of breaking off from the UK, and potentially staying with the EU. The triggering of Article 50 also requires the delivery of a letter from Prime Minister Theresa May to the EU, and this morning people were wildly speculating about what exactly she wrote in it.

“We can still pop over occasionally for cheap booze, right?”#WriteTheArticle50Letter

— Tristan Hyde (@Tristan_Hyde) March 28, 2017

Dear EU… #WriteTheArticle50Letter pic.twitter.com/2kPlQtjdL3

— Declan Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) March 28, 2017

Emma Von Zeipel

Emma Von Zeipel is a staff writer at Law Street Media. She is originally from one of the islands of Stockholm, Sweden. After working for Democratic Voice of Burma in Thailand, she ended up in New York City. She has a BA in journalism from Stockholm University and is passionate about human rights, good books, horses, and European chocolate. Contact Emma at EVonZeipel@LawStreetMedia.com.