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SOURCES:
(I may have missed some here, as foolishly I did not make notes whilst writing my script. If you find any glaring omissions, I shall try to rectify. A lot of this stuff I just know by keeping up with events and having done EU law at university, so it may actually be quite incomplete)

Books:

Ian Dunt: Brexit, What the Hell Happens Now?
ISBN: 978-0-9954978-2-5

(Especially from page 89, see discussion on problems with falling back on the WTO)

Robert Peston: WTF
ISBN: 978-1-437-66129-5

(See especially Chapter 7, The Great British Kakonomy for information on the struggling British Economy)

Guy Verhofstadt: Europe's Last Chance

(page 247 onwards for a discussion on the EU Army; 266-267 for the increased democratisation of Europe; page 195 onwards for a discussion on the political circumstances of Brexit and a two speed Europe)

Others:

Janan Ganesh's piece on checks and balances [PAYWALL]:
https://www.ft.com/content/a88fab42-c2d3-11e7-b2bb-322b2cb39656

Martin Wolf, regarding the respective strength of the parties in the negotiation, the strength of the UK economy and the dynamics of the negotiations [PAYWALL]:
https://www.ft.com/content/2b7c858a-b400-11e7-a398-73d59db9e399

BoJo's quotation from the Telegraph [PAYWALL]:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/15/boris-johnson-vision-bold-thriving-britain-enabled-brexit/


Eurozone vs UK growth:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2017/oct/31/eurozone-gdp-growth-france-unemployment-inflation

EU vs Russian Military Spending:
https://www.sofmag.com/military-spending-how-does-russia-compare-with-nato-european-members/
See also (if you speak German) and for further discussion on this topic, covering EU Army, defence budged, further evolution of EU:
https://www.zdf.de/politik/maybrit-illner/europa-laeuft-die-zeit-davon-warten-auf-berlin-sendung-vom-2-november-2017-100.html

EU Laws in Britain:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36473105

Weak British productivity:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/21/productivity-crisis-uk-real-wage-growth

Information about the EU Commission:
https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/institutions-bodies/european-commission_en

European Global Strategy:
http://www.eeas.europa.eu/archives/docs/top_stories/pdf/eugs_review_web.pdf

Niklas Sloan