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Post by Admin on Jan 19, 2017 18:56:37 GMT
British Prime Minister Theresa May outlined plans for her country's negotiations for leaving the European Union, or Brexit, during a wide-ranging speech Tuesday. A majority of Britons voted to leave the 28-member bloc in a historic referendum in June over issues that included sovereignty and immigration. May has said she will trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty — the process that formally begins negotiations over the United Kingdom's departure from the alliance — by the end of March. She reiterated that point Tuesday, saying the U.K. would make a clean break from the bloc. May also said the U.K. cannot be a member of the single market, which allows the EU's 28 member nations to trade with each other without restrictions. She said she was seeking "a new and equal" partnership "between an independent, self-governing, global Britain and our friends and allies in the EU." May added that the government will pursue a free trade agreement with the EU that "should allow for the freest possible trade in goods and services between Britain and the EU’s member states."
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Post by Admin on Jan 23, 2017 19:05:17 GMT
Theresa May’s big speech on how she plans to take Britain out of the EU caught the attention of the country and the rest of the world. She won a place on a host of front pages and triggered radically different responses. Here is how the world reacted: The Wall St Journal’s Europe edition splashes on the Brexit speech, and an opinion article salutes her plan for an “honest Brexit”.
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Post by Admin on Mar 30, 2017 18:52:51 GMT
A little over nine months after British voters chose to withdraw from the European Union, Britain took a decisive — and likely irreversible — step Wednesday toward ending a partnership that has bound the country to the continent for nearly half a century.
With the simple handoff of a letter in Brussels, the British government became the first to trigger Article 50 — the mechanism for nations to exit the European Union.
“This is a historic moment from which there can be no turning back,” Prime Minister Theresa May announced to a momentarily hushed House of Commons, before debate later turned rowdy.
In Brussels, European Council President Donald Tusk said there was “no reason to pretend that this is a happy day.”
“After all,” a visibly upset Tusk said, “most Europeans, including nearly half the British voters, wish that we would stay together, not drift apart.”
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Post by Admin on May 13, 2017 18:32:11 GMT
A pro-Brexit group has sparked fury by comparing the French Presidential election to France's 1940 surrender to the Nazis. Leave.EU were branded "fascists" after making the comments on Twitter on the eve of the anniversary of VE Day. The account posted messages attacking the result after centrist, pro-EU candidate Emmanuel Macron beat far-right Marine Le Pen with almost two-thirds of the vote. One had a photo of the Eiffel Tower with the message: "RIP France"
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Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2017 18:37:22 GMT
BREAKING: UK PM May says free movement of EU citizens to Britain will end in March 2019 - spokesman Free movement of people between Britain and the European Union will end in March 2019 when Britain leaves the bloc, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said. Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said there should be no immediate change to immigration rules when Britain leaves the bloc and Home Secretary Amber Rudd also backs transitional arrangements. However, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox said unregulated free movement of labour after Brexit would "not keep faith" with the EU referendum result and that the cabinet had not agreed a stance on immigration.
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