However the 27 remaining European Union members remain divided over how to deal with immigration.
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Cameron is to share his views about the referendum and perhaps Britain’s future at a summit in Brussels starting at 1400 GMT on Tuesday.
To allow the status quo to continue, French President Francois Hollande warned, would benefit populist forces that seek “the end of Europe”.
She said she had had a “sympathetic response” from European Union leaders, and if there was a way for Scotland to stay in the European Union she was “determined to find it”.
Angela Merkel has said there is no way to reverse the UK’s decision to vote for Brexit, calling it “wishful thinking” to suggest there is any way Britain can stay in the EU.
Outgoing UK Prime Minister David Cameron said that the issue of freedom of movement would be for the next PM and government to decide.
It had been billed as David Cameron’s most awkward summit, a time when he would be forced to rake over the mistakes which led to Britain voting to leave the European Union.
Jun 29, 2016- There can be “no single market a la carte” for the UK, EU leaders have warned, after meeting in Brussels to discuss the UK vote to leave the bloc. Central European nations led by Hungary refuse to accept imposed EU refugee quotas, and countries further north have all tightened border controls in response to the arrival of more than 1 million migrants a year ago.
In an effort to tackle this, the leaders agreed on Wednesday they need to do more to battle what a final joint statement called “dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs”.
Some 48 percent of the French think it’s a “good thing” for the European Union that Britain made a decision to leave the bloc, while 52 percent said it was a “bad thing”, according to the Elabe poll for BFM TV.
“I think it’s going to be a very hard negotiation”.
Pressure on Boris Johnson intensified as one Tory former minister referred to him as “Silvio Borisconi” and Labour MPs could be heard shouting “where’s Boris?”
The message was echoed by Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, who stressed that all of the EU’s four freedoms – goods, services, people and capital – must be accepted. She said that combating youth unemployment, for example, could involve both scrapping EU directives and deepening European cooperation. Sturgeon has indicated there may be a new referendum on Scottish independence.
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Mr Tusk defended Mr Juncker against critics, saying that the reforms to the terms of United Kingdom membership negotiated with Mr Cameron ahead of the Brexit campaign were “the maximum – more than maximum – of what was possible” within the terms of the European Union treaties and what member states could accept.
