The burgeoning challenges against the logic of regional integration in Europe, French fear of falling behind, concern about Germany’s predominance, the significance of Franco-German leadership, British detachment and the small-country syndrome of fear of hegemony (Dinani, 2014) cast the European Union (EU) as a model of integration in the spotlight of virulent academic debate. Even though the EU has stimulated the globalisation of socio-economic and environmental processes (Mesjasz-Lech, 2016), it has, equally, generated Euroscepticism and EURO scepticism (Riedel, 2016), particularly from the United Kingdom Independent Party (UKIP), France (Front National) and, to a lesser degree, the Czech, Hungary and many other EU Member States who show their dissatisfaction due largely to the EU integration policies which have created migration crisis (Nová, 2016; Horváth, 2016; Olejárová and Čajka, 2016), against EU’ demographic modeling (Šimpach and Pecrová, 2016), eroded European national and cultural identities (Nenička, 2016) and threatened the future of the EU. Although Britain reluctantly joined the EU in 1975 by a referendum, the UK’s prodigal ‘no-vote’ referendum on the 23 June 2016, targeted at Britain’s exit (Brexit) from the EU was not only perceived as a serpentine plot against the future of EU and, by extension UK, but also the Europe-Transatlantic Cooperation. The broad objective of the paper is to re-examine the strategic vision, policies and practices of the EU in the context of the politics of Brexit. The specific objective is to draw lessons from the Brexit and its impact on the future of Union to appraise EU as a global model of integration. With the theory of regionalism, we concluded that the EU as a global model of integration faced post-Brexit extinction in the event of lack of EU-UK compromise agreement which would undermine the future of Europe and Britain in global power and influence.
