Atividade Relações Internacionais

Nome: Marcus Coelho

Curso: Relações Internacionais

Link do texto: https://www.vox.com/world/2018/10/5/17879068/brexit-uk-eutheresa-may-deal

- Número de palavras: 2.297

- Uma frase completa relatando a ideia principal do texto, em português:

A ideia principal do texto é detalhar a situação atual em que se encontra a

saída do Reino Unido da União Europeia, mostrando também o porquê da

intenção de sair e quais os possíveis desfechos deste processo nesta reta final

de negociações entre as duas partes.

- 5 Palavras cognatas: “Minister” (Ministro); “European” (Européia); “Union”

(União); Parliaments (Parlamentos); “Consequences” (Consequências).

- 1 Frase com ideia de presente (simple present tense):

“The EU and UK still need to make a deal”.

- 1 Frase com ideia de passado (simple past tense):

“The UK joined the European Economic Community in 1973, which became

part of the European Union when it was formed, in 1993”

- Uma palavra com prefixo:

Unpalatable (Prefixo “un”).

Britain’s roiling Brexit

crisis, explained

The EU and UK still need to make a deal (SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE) — and

the March 2019 deadline is getting closer.

Time is running short to figure out a Brexit deal.

British Prime Minister (PALAVRA COGNATA) Theresa May is heading to

Brussels on Wednesday to meet with European (PALAVRA COGNATA) Union

(PALAVRA COGNATA) leaders to once again try to hash out a deal over the

terms of the United Kingdom’s exit — or “Brexit” — from the EU.

The two sides have until March 29, 2019, to reach an agreement and have it

ratified by the European and UK parliaments (PALAVRA COGNATA). On that

date, the UK’s membership in the EU will expire, deal or no deal.

The consequences (PALAVRA COGNATA) of not reaching a deal could be

catastrophic — and not just for the UK: 3 million EU citizens living in the UK and

1 million Britons living in other EU countries would lose all automatic rights and

protections overnight. Air travel in the UK would grind to an immediate halt.

British supermarkets could run out of food. And those are just a few of the dire

scenarios possible.

Both the UK and the EU want to avoid that outcome. But there are still major

hurdles before they can reach an agreement — not least of which is that May’s

own party is divided on what kind of deal they want with the EU.

There’s been a ton of back-and-forth for months, and it can be hard to keep

track of it all, even for people who follow the issue closely. So if you’ve been

wondering what the hell is going on with Brexit, you’re not alone.

That’s why we’re going to take a big step back and lay it all out clearly and

concisely: how we got here, where the Brexit negotiations stand right now, what

exactly the two sides are fighting over, and where things might go from here.

A quick reminder of how it all began:

The UK joined the European Economic Community in 1973, which became part

of the European Union when it was formed, in 1993 (SIMPLE PAST TENSE).

The EU currently has 28 European member states. As Vox’s Zack

Beauchamp has explained:

Today, the EU includes a political and economic bureaucracy, based in

Brussels, that shapes and controls many aspects of European political life. The

EU has its own currency, the euro. It has a travel agreement, called Schengen,

which makes most of the EU function as one giant country when it comes to

travel and migration.

These agreements bolster what are known as the four key pillars, or “four

freedoms,” of the EU: freedom of movement for goods, capital, services, and

people.

The UK has always had a degree of distance from the EU — it maintains its

own currency, the sterling pound, and never joined the Schengen agreement,

which eliminates internal border controls within the EU, though it’s still required

to embrace the movement of people, including migrants, as part of those four

pillars.

But in the past decade, the eurozone economic crisis and, later, the influx of

refugees from Syria and other parts of Africa and the Middle East helped

galvanize voters in the UK and tapped into a larger skepticism about EU

membership, leading some to call for the UK to separate itself from the EU.

In 2013, then-British Prime Minister David Cameron promised to hold a

referendum on whether the UK should remain in the EU or leave if his

Conservative Party won elections, which it did. They held the referendum in

2016, and