The Right Way to Fix the EU: Put Politics Before Economics.

EUROPEAN Union; BRITISH withdrawal from the European Union, 2016-2020; EUROPEAN integration; GOVERNMENT purchasing; LABOR market; MACROECONOMICS

The article focuses on European Union (EU) to maintain its legitimacy and global influence after Brexit. Topics discussed include EU's own missteps in handling the process of European integration played some part in driving the British out, need to maintain national control over important policy levers such as industrial policy, public procurement, labor market policy, and EU wide financial and banking union was always going to lead serious macroeconomic imbalances between creditor countries.