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@Francesco Zanna
I very much doubt it. Not only does it fly in the face of the Vienna Convention and other precedents set by international law (e.g. Panama and Parlacen) but it would be against the spirit of the treaties to bounce out a Member State contrary to its will on the sole basis of an overly-legalistic interpretation of article 50.

If the AG is not followed, what might happen could be along the lines of what the president of the ECJ mentioned during the hearing, i.e. a "reverse qualified majority" whereby the withdrawal of the notification would be effective unless a majority of Member States vote not to accept it.

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