The European Parliament president’s trip comes after European Council President Donald Tusk held a summit at Number 10 with May ahead of the Bratislava summit of 27 EU leaders last week (the Conservative premier was not invited).
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Britain’s exit talks with the European Union will likely start in early 2017, and could take less than the allotted two years, Britain’s foreign secretary said Thursday.
Brexit rhetoric has intensified in the last week, with Eastern European countries threatening to veto any deal that restricts EU migration, and the United Kingdom mooting the possibility of leaving without a new trade deal, in a so-called “hard” Brexit.
“In London I will also stress why the European Parliament favours the earliest possible triggering of Article 50, which is a pre-condition to opening negotiations”.
Asked what they expected of Brexit, most Britons mentioned the end of freedom of movement but also continued access to the single market.
On his two-day visit, he will give the authorities details of why EU parliamentarians believe that Article 50 of the EU Treaty, which will begin officially the process of the Brexit, should be activated immediately. Once it does, there is a two-year timeline laid out for talks.
Schulz, a member of Germany’s center-left Social Democrats, leads the 28-nation EU’s legislative assembly.
After his meeting with the Prime Minister he will meet the mayor of London Sadiq Khan on Thursday.
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“We will invoke that and in that letter I’m sure we will be setting out some parameters for how we propose to take this forward – principles”.
