What will become of the thousands of British European civil servants after Brexit? They very quickly received the backing of Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the Commission (an institution which employed 899 British nationals as of 1 January 2018, out of a total of around 2,000), who called on the other EU institutions to interpret the staff regulations with flexibility and a “European spirit”.
Essentially, following the referendum of 23 June 2018, the institutions were all free to...