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May plan on Brexit provokes negative reactions and resignations
British Prime Minister Theresa May thought she had an agreement on the exit process from the European Union, but she now faces dissension and a challenge for her leadership. Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Greg Palkot reports from London.
Spain has agreed Saturday to support an agreement on Brexit, but only after the UK and the EU. agreed to give Spain its say on the future of the disputed British territory of Gibraltar.
"We have reached a historic agreement and we will vote tomorrow for Brexit," Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told reporters. "Europe and the UK have accepted our demands. Spain realizes a triple arsenal with which it can deal definitively with the United Kingdom [over] the future of Gibraltar in the years to come. "
This agreement means that an agreement on the withdrawal of Britain from the European Union should easily be signed Sunday morning; Spain has long threatened a veto. But that's another concession that British Prime Minister, Theresa May, made in order to reach an agreement before Britain's departure from the US in March.
Spain wanted the future of Gibraltar, a territory on the southern tip of Spain that had been ceded to Great Britain in 1713, to be a problem between Spain and Britain rather than between Spain and Britain. Britain and the EU. The agreement provides that Madrid will have its say on Gibraltar-related issues with respect to future trade agreements.
In a letter obtained by the Associated Press, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk assured Sanchez that "the prior agreement" of Spain would be necessary on the issues concerning Gibraltar.
The UK Telegraph reported that the British government had acknowledged in writing that no part of a future trade agreement could be applied in Gibraltar without the agreement of the Spanish Government, which gave the fear that the Spaniards can not use this power to obtain a wide range of concessions. on issues such as taxation and fishing.
May said that Britain, which had voted in favor of the European Union 's exit in a referendum in 2016, had not conceded GIbraltar' s sovereignty.
"I will always be with Gibraltar," said May. "The position of the United Kingdom on the sovereignty of Gibraltar has not changed and will not change."
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But the concessions will only increase nervousness in Britain, where it is under significant pressure from the Brexiteers and the Remnants about the agreement it reached with European leaders before Britain left for Britain. March.
Brexit spokesman for the Liberal Democratic Party, Tom Brake, accused May of "giving in".
"She conceded that Gibraltar would not necessarily be covered by a future trade agreement, just another example of why it negotiated is totally unacceptable," he said, according to Sky News.
Although she secures US With her support, she still has the gigantic task of getting the deal through Parliament, where her conservative party holds a slim majority and is bitterly divided. A number of ministers, including two Cabinet members, have resigned from the agreement – votes favoring Brexit saying it would not lead to Britain's departure from the EU. and could tie Britain to the block indefinitely.
Another blow last Saturday when the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, on which May relies to get the majority of his government, rejected the deal, arguing that it would create a gap between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
