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Brexit news: Brussels today presented a plan approved by Farage, Rees-Mogg and Johnson (Image: GETTY)
In harsh terms, the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has clearly expressed his disgust for the "insulting" comparison of Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt between the European Union and the former repressive Soviet Union.
Calling for "respect" from Britain, he also rejected May's complaint, which had insulted the United Kingdom at the summit last month, during which the leaders had firmly rejected his Checkers project.
But its renewed offer of an agreement based on relations between the EU and Canada has been seized by eurosceptics in the UK, who claim that May's idea will keep Britain on track. too attached to the rules of the EU.
Ukip's former head, Nigel Farage, urged her in a tweet: "Please, Ms. May, bite her hand."
Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg also praised the agreement and urged the prime minister to get things done.
However, the British government says that an agreement to the Canadian will not solve the problem of avoiding creating a "hard border" between Northern Ireland and neighboring Ireland. 39; EU.
But the UK was apparently preparing to try to break the stalemate by tabling a new "protection" proposal to be used if the Irish issue can not be resolved permanently on Brexit Day next March.
After meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, Mr Tusk said in Brussels: "The EU wants as close and special a relationship as possible with the UK.
"From the outset, the EU's offer was not just an agreement Canada, but a Canada plus plus, much more ambitious agreement in the areas of trade, homeland security and security. cooperation on foreign policy.
"This offer stays in place."
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, head of Brexiteer's conservative European research group, replied: "This is a good solution for everyone and the ERG proposals for the Irish border mean that it could work for the UK as a whole ".
His colleague, Brexiteer Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin, also praised Tusk's intervention, in which she tweeted: "Hooray! Tusk / ERG is agreeing on Canada +++! resolvable via controls outside the border, and not via a safety net that threatens to divide the United Kingdom. "
But a British government source said: "The Canadian model does not include Northern Ireland and this remains the case – so you have a border along the Irish Sea. plan keeps the United Kingdom united. "
Mr Tusk also warned the UK, saying that he could not expect the EU to give up its essential interests.
Probably stung by the latest request from Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, asking the EU to "show serious" in the negotiations, he insisted: "The EU is serious to get the best deal possible" .
On May's assertions, the EU did not show "respect" at the summit held last month in Austria, Mr Tusk – who was criticized for give a sarcastic image of her at the meeting – said that honestly present the block position for the partners.
"The emotional arguments that emphasize the dignity issue seem attractive, but they do not facilitate agreement." Remember that every actor in this process has its dignity and confrontation in this area will lead to nothing good. "
Brexit News: The Irish Taois Leo Varadkar with Donald Tusk (Image: GETTY)
Offering a Canada + + + agreement was "a real measure of respect," he added.
The former Polish prime minister was scathing about Mr Hunt, whom he described as "as unwise as insulting."
As he had spent half of his life under the Soviet regime, "I know what I'm talking about," Tusk said. This block focused on "prisons, walls and violence against the citizens", while the EU meant "freedom, human rights, prosperity, peace, democracy and pluralism, without borders or interior walls ".
"Respecting our partners, we expect the same thing in return," said Tusk.
"Unacceptable remarks that raise the temperature will only waste more time."
The goal must now be "maximum progress" before the October 17 European summit and, even though he knew the party's policy was a former leader, "now the Conservative Party conference is over, we should get to work. "
Brexit News: Despite the success of her speech at the party's conference, Theresa May remains under enormous pressure (Image: GETTY)
Meanwhile, Britain would prepare to present a compromise on the Irish "safety net", in which the United Kingdom would remain in a customs union, but Northern Ireland could align itself separately. on Single Market rules.
The United Kingdom would also be ready to refrain from insisting that any such agreement be terminated on a given date.
The EU's emergency plan vis-à-vis its rivals has been to keep only Northern Ireland in the customs union, which Mrs May refuses to qualify as break the UK by actually putting a border on the sea of Ireland.
