I hope it doesn't happen, we are working hard to try to make sure it doesn't happen, but there is no doubt that it would have very considerable consequences for our continent and for our union, some of those will perhaps be predictable and some of them will be unpredictable as Europe reacts to this new and unprecedented development.

Jonathan Faull

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No doubt it's not impossible but given the complexity of some of these issues and the relatively recent date on which the Prime Minister sent his (renegotiation) letter, it's not going to be easy, we'll see where we are before the European Council meeting on December 17. If that's not possible we will go into next year and the next scheduled European Council is in February and that gives us a few more weeks to work on these very tricky issues.