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"We have to accept the fact that the situation is lost-losing," EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said of the break in Brussels during his visit to Helsinki in the framework of the Congress of the EU. EPP.
Michel Barnier pick up a piece of paper that he shows and shows – not what you see, but he wants to illustrate one thing:
– Let me see. What is colored in green has been agreed, says Barnier.
He mostly looks green on the pages that he looks forward to. The agreement on the withdrawal will be clear to 95%. What remains to be done is a stopwatch for what is happening in Northern Ireland if no agreement is reached.
"To get an agreement, we need a stopwatch that keeps all the weather, we have repeated it over and over again.
Barnier does not go into details – but during the weekend the waves rose in Britain after the Sunday Times data that the British Prime Minister Theresa May would have a new model of struggle, whereby all Britain could remain in the Customs Union as a last resort. Otherwise, only Northern Ireland will remain in the customs union, which would create a border with the rest of the country.
Barnier is now in the ultimate light of negotiations. But he walks around and meets the governments of the member states, he says.
"It gives me a lot of travel costs for our team, but whatever happens, the brexit is a loser, it will not add value, but there are many consequences: human, social, economic. and financial, technological, legal … We must be able to explain it well so that everyone is ready for any eventuality, "Barnier said.
What is needed, of course, is a clear exit agreement, but also a framework for future relations between the EU and the UK. In practice, a new trade agreement can not be terminated until Britain has left the Union. It therefore includes a period of transition and a sketch of the future on which the Union and the British Parliament can take a stand.
"To be honest, we are not there yet," said Barnier.
A summit in November has already been set up to close the negotiations. The next will be in December. Before the beginning of the year, everything should be done to follow the parliamentary process. Article 50 – Entry – Entry into force at the end of March.
As usual, Barnier says nothing about proximity but says that "the clock is turning".
first Juha Sipilä (C), at Barnier's meeting at Villa Bjälbo on Wednesday as part of a poll on the EPP Congress, said he was more optimistic after Wednesday's meetings.
– I met the Prime Minister Theresa May last week, this morning, my Irish colleague (Leo Varadkar), and chairman of the board Donald Tusk. I now feel safer to have a solution before the end of the year. I hope so, but it's up to Britain to decide.
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said in the morning in Helsinki that he was hoping for a quick bargaining result, but felt that it would be possible to end his work in December.
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