RE: UK to leave EU
March 30, 2017 at 5:31 am
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2017 at 5:33 am by Isis.)
Things are certainly getting interesting.
Whatever ends up happening in the end, I sure as hell hope everything goes smoothly.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/201...it-demands
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/201...n-security
Whatever ends up happening in the end, I sure as hell hope everything goes smoothly.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/201...it-demands
Quote:Angela Merkel has rejected one of Theresa May’s key Brexit demands, insisting negotiations on Britain’s exit from the European Union cannot run in parallel with talks on the future UK-EU relationship.
“The negotiations must first clarify how we will disentangle our interlinked relationship,” the German chancellor said in Berlin. “Only when this question is dealt with can we – hopefully soon after – begin talking about our future relationship.”
In her six-page letter triggering article 50 and formally launching the process of leaving the EU, the prime minister said she believed it was “necessary to agree the terms of our future partnership alongside those of our withdrawal from the European Union”.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/201...n-security
Quote:The Brexit secretary, David Davis, has said Theresa May’s article 50 letter was not a threat to withdraw security cooperation with the EU if no final deal is reached before Britain’s exit in two years’ time.
In the letter, May warned European leaders that failure to reach a comprehensive Brexit agreement covering crucial deals on justice and home affairs would result in a weakening of cooperation on crime and security.
Guy Verhofstadt, the former Belgian prime minister who represents the European parliament at the negotiations, called it a threat and said the security of citizens was “far too important to start a trade-off of one and the other”. The Sun newspaper’s headline “Your money or your lives” on Thursday also inferred ministers would withdraw security cooperation if no trade deal was reached.