Expressing understanding of the concerns Latvians have in regard to Brexit and being permitted to live and work in Britain, Tusk emphasized that one of the most important discussion topics would be to ensure the rights of European Union citizens in Britain.
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Mrs May’s determination to retain the air of mystery was reinforced this week by her announcement that she reserves for herself the decision on when to start the “divorce” talks with the European Union, without giving MPs a formal say on the matter, and that, until she does so, she has no intention of providing “a running commentary on every twist and turn of the negotiations”. “It will”, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“It is after Brexit that the United Kingdom … would formally negotiate with the EU new arrangements on its relationship, such as trade, participation in the single market, and movement of labor”, Jean-Claude Piris, former head of the legal service of the Council of the European Union, wrote in the Financial Times.
Other ministers said the so-called Brexit would be part of talks that should focus on improving the EU.
“We should think out of the box, not only black or white”, Roettgen said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Berlin.
May had earlier talked about waiting until early 2017 before triggering the process, which may take two yeras to complete negotiations.
The second priority would be to use Article 44 of the EU’s founding treaties, allowing a smaller group of countries to organise military action on behalf of the whole bloc.
Hammond told peers yesterday (8 September): “We can not accept uncontrolled free movement of people – that is the political outcome of the referendum decision that was made”.
“As Europeans we must take greater responsibility for our security”. The EU is a customs union with common external customs tariff rates, so Britain will not be able to strike individual deals with separate member states on reducing duties bilaterally. “What would stop other countries from asking the same exceptional status?”
But the Department for Exiting the European Union said its legal bill has so far reached an estimated £268,711 – an average of around £33,500 a week.
Remaining EU members also have to figure out what they’re going to do after Brexit. “In truth it will be a long, tortuous process-a slow burn, if you like, with costs, economic and political, that will reach well into coming decades”.
On Friday, the Economist wrote that 77 days after the Brexit vote, “May’s mantra, “Brexit means Brexit”, has become a exhausted cliché”.
“I have forbidden commissioners from holding discussions with representatives from the British government”, he said.
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South Korea’s Mirae Asset Life Insurance Co Ltd said in a regulatory filing on Friday it had submitted a final bid for PCA Life Insurance Co Ltd, an unlisted South Korean unit of British insurer Prudential PLC. Given the claims of Leave campaigners during the referendum, will this be acceptable?
