EU parliament urges ‘immediate’ triggering of Brexit process

<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 6px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.6px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #262626; line-height: 22px; font-family: Roboto;"><span style="font-size: 15.6px;">The “will expressed by the people needs to be entirely and fully respected, starting with an immediate activation of Article 50,” said a resolution approved by MEPs at an emergency session, by 395 in favour to 200 against, with 71 abstensions.

<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 6px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.6px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #262626; line-height: 22px; font-family: Roboto;">It is up to the British government to invoke the so-called Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty that starts the clock on two years to negotiate the terms of the exit.