The incumbent President of France Francois Hollande took an opportunity to call the votes to give their ballots to the centrist Emmanuel Macron, the former Finance minister of his government. Hollande ensured international press in the European engagement of Macron, and warned against abstention, which can serve to advantage to his contestant Marine Le Pen….
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Schaeuble announces hard Brexit
Britain must understand that it won’t have advantages over its 27 peers in the European Union once negotiations over its exit from the bloc are concluded, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in remarks published on Saturday. “There is no free lunch,” Schaeuble told the Funke Media Group, using an English expression. “Britons must know…
EU citizens for residency in UK
European Union leaders will insist the UK grants permanent residence to EU citizens who settled before Brexit to obtain a permit to stay five more years, according to a draft negotiating plan they to be endorsed in Brussels this weekend. https://twitter.com/Corbynator2/status/856825859478626304 In the latest sign of the EU27 to mount pressure on Prime Minister Theresa…
Brexit EU Summit to set out positions
On 29 April, 27 EU leaders meet to agree guidelines for the Brexit talks ahead. This will define the framework for negotiations and set out the overall EU positions and principles during negotiations. The summit comes one month after the UK officially notified the EU of its intention to leave. #Brexit – what's next? #EU27…
Brexit launch expected on 14th of March
Reportedly the triggering of the Article 50 is foreseen for Tuesday, the 14th of March, when the Prime Minister Theresa May will declare the historic process of the departure from the European Union during her speech in the UK Parliament. The date was carefully chosen well ahead of the Informal Summit in Rome, when the leaders…
Schaeuble for making Brexit a negative example
Germany’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said it is essential for the EU27 to stick together in while approaching “Brexit” negotiations with the UK. Schaeuble also told to press corps in Berlin that he believes Brexit negotiations will be “difficult and complicated”, and while concluding the negotiations it should be clear to everyone that remaining on…
Juncker's White paper to save EU27
President Jean-Claude Juncker will present a White paper to the European Parliament on Wednesday 1st of March, on ways to re-establish unity after the UK launches its ‘divorce’ process, a spokesman announced. The European Commission president wishes the states to find the ways to deepen cooperation further and faster in bilateral ways, without the whole…
Juncker works at post-Brexit era concept
European Union chief executive – the European commission president Jean-Claude Juncker will propose to national leaders next month a number of options for reestablishing unity after the moment of the UK triggering the Artile 50 so initiate Brexit procedure, leaving the EU. Juncker hopes the EU27 members will be able to deepen cooperation further and faster…
Brexit goes without reverse
The British government has no intention of revoking its withdrawal from the European Union once the formal exit process has been triggered, Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman said on Monday. Prime Minister May declared her intention to trigger Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty by the end of March, launching two years talks for…
UK to walk away without a deal?
The UK departure without a deal as a concept appears persistently in different contexts, approaching the date of the triggering Article 50, promised by Prime Minister Theresa May in March, likely before the Treaty of Rome celebrations on the 27th, but after the Dutch general elections on the 15th. The UK officials do not wish…
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