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'Earthquake in Europe'
The websites of French newspapers have been running live pages
and posting extensive comment.
The weekly new magazine Le Point has no doubt that the UK
decision is "causing an earthquake in Europe".
'Brexit epidemic'
Central and south-eastern EU members also worry that the vote will
encourage populists who want to undermine the EU.
The Czech media, perhaps conscious of the break-up of
Czechoslovakia, pay considerable attention to suggestions that
Scotland and Northern Ireland might want to leave the United
Kingdom. Czech state TV and private Nova TV both report on this.
The Romanian TV channel Digi24 predicts that Brexit has "opened
Pandora's Box" by fuelling the "arguments of nationalists who want a
domino effect" of moves across the continent to leave the EU.
Evenimentul Zilei also fears a "Brexit epidemic!", and declares that
the "EU is falling apart" as nationalists in the Netherlands, France
and Italy seek referendums.
'Goodbye to Europe'
Russia's Kommersant FM radio reports the result as "leading to a
collapse on global currency markets and dealing the biggest blow to
a united Europe since the Second World War".
In Ukraine, political analyst Ruslan Bortnik tells the Segodnya daily
that the vote will strengthen Eurosceptics and weaken European
'Emboldening Russia'
Australian commentators are generally less apocalyptic in their
assessments.
The Age says the "protracted political and legal mess" of leaving the
EU will lead to "no instant change", and James Chessell writes in
the Australian Financial Review that "Brexit won't be as bad as
people think - it will hurt the EU more than it hurts the UK".
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poses for India, above all a falling rupee-dollar rate that would make
oil imports more expensive.
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'Domino effect'
Arab newspapers largely agree that the referendum will change
Europe and possibly trigger more moves towards separation.
The headline in Lebanon's Al-Nahar daily declares that "Europe will
not be the same", but there is more uncertainty about its impact on
Arab countries.
The Saudi daily Okaz says it could give the Gulf Cooperation
Council more investment opportunities in Britain, "which has
considered the Gulf an influential economic and trade centre since
the old days", but Kuwait's Al-Rai doubts that Brexit "will have any
effect" as "it is none of our business".
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Anshel Pfeffer wrote in Israel's Haaretz that Brexit will "send shock
waves that will be felt from London, through Brussels and the rest of
the EU capitals to the whole world", and he also expects more calls
for referendums in other EU states.
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