Want to keep your EU and British citizenship? Don’t get your hopes up / How the courts gave us EU citizenship, and how Britons can keep it after Brexit

Guy Verhofstadt has mooted the idea of ‘associate citizenship’ for British citizens who wanted to keep it post-Brexit. Steve Peers says Verhofstadt not only lacks the authority to negotiate on this issue, but the chances of securing agreement from all other member states are pretty remote. He stands accused of raising false hopes. Nonetheless, were the EU to offer individual Britons such a deal, it would be very hard for the UK government to stop them accepting it.

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