Diplomatic frenzy begins as the EU confronts its worst-case scenario

BERLIN — European leaders went into crisis mode Friday after the surprise vote by Britain to exit the European Union, locking themselves inside emergency meetings even as nationalists across the region issued rallying cries to follow in London’s footsteps.
From Dublin to Paris to Berlin, governments confronted their worst-case scenarios and scrambled to form a consensus on how to now extricate Britain from the 28-nation bloc as British Prime Minister David Cameron said he planned to