Gisteren heeft Jacques Barnier nog eens mooi de puntjes op de I gezet, ze zullen er in WestMinster en Belfast niet goed van zijn (de DUP Tenminste toch.)
Noord-Ierland wordt door Barnier duidelijk omschreven als een zone met een aparte status waar andere regels gelden dan in het UK en dat zal zo blijven, wellicht blijft Noord-Ierland wel in de Singel Market en in de Customs Zone en wel degelijk zonder een harde grens.
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Those who wanted Brexit must offer solutions.
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Message loud and clear rom Brussels to Westminster : You break it, you solve it (and pay the price) and Brexit REALLY means Brexit.
Die toekenning van relocatieplaatsen van EBA en EMA waren slechts de kers op de taart.
http://www.cer.eu/in-the-press/barni...-uk-trade-deal
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Speaking to a Brussels audience at a Centre for European Reform conference, Barnier said the UK would have access to the single market, but stressed this was not equal to membership. “The UK will lose the benefits of the single market. This is a legal reality,” he said. “It simply draws the logical consequence of the UK’s decision to take back control.”
British firms, he said, would lose their financial service passports, which enable banks and institutions in the City of London to reach a market of 500 million consumers and 22m businesses.
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The EU has set the UK a deadline of early December to improve its offer on the Brexit divorce bill. The UK must also make “sufficient progress” on agreeing the status of citizens’ rights, the EU budget settlement and the Irish border before it is allowed to begin trade talks.
The Irish issue has emerged as an uncertain factor in talks, after Ireland said it would veto an agreement in December without a formal written guarantee there would be no hard border.
Barnier said he expected the UK as a co-guarantor of the Good Friday agreement to come up with proposals to avoid a hard border, remarks that underline the fact he does not see the British government’s calls for “imaginative” technological solutions as serious.
John Bruton, a former Irish prime minister, urged the UK to stay in the customs union, while lambasting the British political class for not taking the issue seriously during the referendum. “It is quite remarkable that the Good Friday agreement is being taken more seriously by French, Italian and German politicians than it is by British politicians,” he said.
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Ze zijn toch echt niet goed snik, die engelsen...
