Robert Delahunty and John Yoo write: The qualities most needed in the post-Brexit world are courage and imagination. Existing institutions and practices such as the EU have failed or are failing. The answer is not to try, out of fear and desperation, to prop them up. The answer is to learn from their failure and to create something better. Brexit has not put peace and prosperity at risk. It has opened up possibilities for renewal. – National Review Online
E.U. leaders gathered Wednesday without Britain for the first time in four decades amid divisions about how tough to treat the departing country and how to avoid a further crack up of the union. – Washington Post
Deeply shaken by Britain’s vote to quit the European Union, the bloc’s leaders met on Tuesday to confront their most urgent conundrum: How to calm the crisis in the hope that it fades away, while making the British decision so painful that no other country follows. – New York Times