Great Britain And Its Quiet Departure From The EU!

The U.K. departs from the E.U.

The official departure from the European Union.

Great Britain has formally announced it's approved a negotiations to depart from the European Union.

The nearly 50 year membership became official at midnight in Brussels, where the EU is headquartered. Thousands of enthusiastic Brexit supporters gathered outside the U.K. Parliament to welcome the moment they'd long for since British voters supported a controversial decision to walk away from a coalition of nation-states in 1973.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson praised the decision as "a moment of real national renewal and change."

This exit makes British officials lose their passports, their freedom to travel to EU partners and trading rights. They will have to figure out how to produce a fair trade with the European Union and the United States. They lose their freedom to work in EU partner nations. The EU will no longer offer military aid or formal support in emergencies if the U.K. suffers an economic recession.

Pretty much Brits are on their own.

Donald J. Trump was a strong backer of the Brexit.

America First and British Nationality have been a theme among white nationalists.

British conservatives won their elections assuring that the Brexit deal would stream forward.

This departure also threatens to tear apart the British sovereignty. First things first, Northern Ireland.

The country is a part of Great Britain but located on the Republic of Ireland. They have considerations to return back to the Irish.

Scotland is also another country that wants independence from England. The Scots have signaled a possibility of autonomy from the dependant crown.

The now 27-member EU will have to bounce back from one of its biggest setbacks in its 62-year history to confront an ever more complicated world as its former member becomes a competitor, just across the English Channel.

French President Emmanuel Macron called Brexit a "historic alarm signal" that should force the EU to improve itself.

"It's a sad day, let's not hide it," he said in a televised address. "But it is a day that must also lead us to do things differently."

He insisted that European citizens need a united Europe "more than ever," to defend their interests in the face of China and the United States, to cope with climate change and migration and technological upheaval.

In the many EU buildings of Brussels on Friday, British flags were quietly lowered, folded and taken away. This is the first time a country has left the EU, and many in the bloc rued the day. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen lamented that "as the sun rises tomorrow, a new chapter for our union of 27 will start."

But she warned Brexit day would mark a major loss for the U.K. and said the island nation was heading for a lonelier existence.

"Strength does not lie in splendid isolation, but in our unique union," she said.

Johnson insisted post-Brexit Britain would be "simultaneously a great European power and truly global in our range and ambitions."

"We want this to be the beginning of a new era of friendly cooperation between the EU and an energetic Britain," Johnson said in a pre-recorded address to the country broadcast an hour before Britain's exit.

In a break with usual practice, independent media outlets were not allowed to film Johnson's speech, which the government recorded Thursday at 10 Downing St.