Jean-Claude Juncker warned that the decision of the British Parliament "increased the risk" of a Brexit without agreement

"The vote yesterday has increased the risk of a disorderly withdrawal from the UK," badured before the Juncker Eurocámara, that rejected, as countries like Ireland, France and Germany, have reopened the agreement. "The divorce agreement will not be renegotiated," he added.

The goal of May, it is renegotiate with the EU the purpose of the divorce agreement that causes more rejection and prevents the British Parliament from approving the pactnecessary to secure an "orderly withdrawal" from the UK on March 29th.

This stumbling stone is the one called "Backstop", a device intended to prevent the reintroduction of a border on the island of Ireland and to preserve the peace agreement of Good Friday, which in 1998 ended three decades of bloody clashes between Republican Catholics and Unionist Protestants.

Juncker defended the continuity of this mechanism, to which the The British government and the 27 had agreed in November 2018 to avoid "going back to the past". "The" backstop "is not a dogma, it is a realistic solution," said European negotiator Michel Barnier.

Less than two months before the planned withdrawal from the UK, the president of the community executive called to prepare "for all scenarios, including the worst".

Barnier hinted that he would reopen the political declaration that accompanies the divorce agreement and lay the groundwork for future relations between the UK and its 27 partners, particularly in the commercial field.

London and Brussels had reflected in their agreement, rejected by Westminster, that the "backstop" would only apply if a better solution is not obtained as part of the negotiation of the future relationship during a transition period.

"If the British petition comes from a simple free trade agreement (…), we are and would be immediately ready to discuss it," said the European negotiator.