“I will see the prime minister later this morning.to ask him to clarify the situation as rapidly as possible”.
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In a speech to the European Parliament, Juncker said a prompt statement of the type of deal Britain wanted was necessary to end uncertainty.
Prime Minister David Cameron will face European Union leaders for the first time since the Brexit vote when he joins talks in Brussels later.
But Cameron, due in Brussels later Tuesday for probably his last summit of European Union leaders, has said that London will not take this step yet, saying on Monday that Britain needs first to “determine the kind of relationship we want with the European Union”.
He went on to say he was banning any informal and secretive negotiations on Britain’s departure from the EU.
Mr Farage made the comments after the President of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, rounded on UKIP members, asking them: “Why are you here?”
“That’s the last time you are applauding here. and to some extent I’m really surprised you are here”. “You were fighting for the exit, the British people voted in favor of the exit”.
“Let’s cut between us a sensible tariff-free deal and thereafter recognise that the United Kingdom will be your friend (.) We will be your best friends in the world”, Mr Farage said to booing from some members of parliament.
Mr Juncker added there had been an “emotional” response from European bureaucrats and said: “I’m not a robot, I’m not a machine, I’m a human being, I’m a European”.
The Washington Post looks at how the British vote highlights a crisis in confidence in democracies from Europe to Brazil to Japan.
Mr Farage greeted Mr Juncker with a handshake, but then just as he was pulling away, Mr Juncker twirled him round and went in for an air kiss.
Britain’s divorce procedure with the European Union will only start when the country formally notifies its intention to leave, activating the Article 50 of Lisbon Treaty.
Mr Cameron has said that he will leave the task to his successor when he steps down in October.
All three men singularly failed to respond to the concerns of potential Leave voters during the renegotiation process at the start of the year, and allowed Angela Merkel to make the “emergency brake” on the ability of European Union migrants to claim in-work benefits so unsatisfactory.
THE PRESIDENT OF the European Commission Jean Claude Juncker was deeply unimpressed to be heckled by a UKIP MEP today. “No notification, no negotiation”, he said.
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Mr Cameron has said it will be up to the next prime minister when to trigger the formal method by which a country leaves the EU, Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.
