2017 is full of European elections. French Presidential election....French assembly election...three German state elections in the spring....and the German nat’l election in Oct/Nov timeframe. Plus five or six additional ones throughout Europe.
I doubt seriously that anything comes up in 2017 for BREXIT talk, and the Brits are still discussing matters with the EU as 2017 closes out.
Trying to delay it until they can figure out a way to kill it.