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Tuesday's "miniturn" by British Prime Minister Theresa May (11) in an attempt to salvage the agreement negotiated by her government for the United Kingdom (EU)
in Berlin, during the second leg of the tour, she was briefly caught behind the official vehicle that had led her to a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. It was an illustration of the May impbade.
After deferring at the last minute the vote of the document by the British Parliament against the prospect of a clear defeat, she promised to ask for additional guarantees from European leaders, but she heard a series of (19659002) The guarantees that led the head of the government to go through the Netherlands (The Hague), Germany and Belgium (Brussels) every 12 hours are linked to the possibility of reopening discussions on the content of the text. a mechanism included in the "divorce" to prevent the re-establishment of a hard border between the Republic of Ireland (EU member) and Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom); Kingdom) after the "brexit"
if no other solution is found by July 2020, six months before the end of the post-separation transition period, the United Kingdom will enter a union provisional customs agreement with the United States. UK parliamentarians who oppose the deal fear that this "buffer solution" will become permanent, linking London to the EU for years and thus opposing the bloc's desire to exit. largely expressed by the European Parliament.
(19659002) "The agreement we have reached is the best possible, the only possible one," said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at the European Parliament in Strasbourg (France). "There is no room for renegotiation".
However, he then indicated that a concession could be made to May to help make the document more acceptable to his compatriots. "
According to Juncker, neither party wants the Customs Union to be deployed, even temporarily.
" We are both determined to do everything. not to be in this situation, but we must prepare ourselves [para essa eventualidade]. It is necessary to give coherence to what we have agreed, for the United Kingdom and for Ireland, that we will never leave alone. "
Can repeat this speech almost word for word after meeting early in Brussels at Donald Tusk, President of the European Council (which brings together the heads of state and government of the continent)
wrote on a social network that has had "a long and frank conversation" with the British Prime Minister and that the EU wants to help. "The question is how," added Tusk.
European Council meets next Thursday (13) to hold a two-day summit over several months, and May must return to Brussels shortly before or during the meeting to seek help from the group you are disconnecting. [19659002] Earlier on Tuesday, Angela Merkel had also ruled out reopening negotiations on the deal, but was ready to help May get the extra guarantees that she hopes to persuade the UK legislator. met the First m Dutch minister Mark Rutte in The Hague.
The British press speculates that they could be included in an addendum to the current document, stating, for example, that British parliamentarians
Also Tuesday, May's spokeswoman announced her intention to submit to the Parliament its new version of the agreement before the end of the year. from 21 January 2019. If nothing changes, the UK leaves the EU on 29 March.
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