Don't mention the Brexit: EU bans Plan B studies

By Paul Taylor and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Commission economists have been banned from researching the impact of Britain leaving the 28-nation bloc, or even talking about it, for fear of getting embroiled in the heated British debate ahead of a referendum, officials said. "There is an internal order not to discuss or study the impact of Brexit," a senior Commission official told Reuters, adding that the instruction had come from the office of European Union chief executi