In the future, if the UK wants to rejoin the EU, they will have to reapply like any other country.
But if no deal is agree upon after the two year waiting period, EU treaties will cease to apply and the UK will leave without a deal.
New Prime Minister Theresa May welcomes President of the European Council Donald Tusk to 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, September 8, 2016 (Andy Rain/Pool).
UK Prime Minister David Cameron announces his resignation on June 24, 2016, after losing a referendum to remain in the EU (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters
Boris Johnson leaves his home in Islington, north London. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
European (Dis)integration - by Alexander Dubovsky
France's Front National leader Marie Le Pen gestures as she speaks to journalists at the FN headquarters in Nanterre, calling for referendums on EU membership in France. Photograph: Matthieu Alexandre/AFP/Getty Images
More Exits? - cartoon by Rytis Daukantas. A suitable cartoon to represent Lithuania’s leading cartoonist, who also happens to be a qualified architect. Here he is on home ground drawing the gleaming parliament building in Strasbourg and speculating on where the exit might be. Like a fetid belch from toad-faced Farage, “Brexit” is as ugly as the concept it encapsulates, followed closely by “Grexit” and “Spexit”. But “Portugexit” takes this linguistic mashup to a whole new level. “Lithuexit,” anyone?
