What is in the Brexit design?

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It is to the extent that The negotiators of the EU and the British government have agreed on a design for a Brexit agreement. The text of the contract includes 585 pages. The most important points at a Glance:

Transition phase

29. March from the UK from the European Union. After a transition phase, but In this time, the UK remains in the EU internal market and the customs Union, in order to prevent a hard cut for the economy. This Phase is nearly 31 two years. December 2020, the last. You can, however, be extended once, provided that this is before the 1. July 2020 is applied for. The UK needs to recognise that the EU legislation, without even the right to vote, and is obliged to continue to pay member contributions. London may, in turn, close but already own “international agreements” such as in the area of trade, provided that these occur only after the transition phase.

EU citizens

In the UK, three million people from other EU countries live well, in the EU, around one Million Britons. You have the right to stay, to work or to study, where you want to. Also claims for health insurance, pensions and other social benefits are guaranteed. The same is true for citizens that arrive during the transition phase. All are allowed to do according to the EU negotiator, Michel Barnier, members of the family such as marriage or partner, children or parents “during the entire life time”.

Financial obligations

The UK needs to meet all the financial commitments it entered into during its membership, even if these extend beyond the termination date and the end of the transition phase. An exact sum is not yet specified, but is only a method of calculation. The British government estimates that the resulting obligations on a 35-to 39 billion pounds (or 40.2 to 44.8 billion euros). By 2020 the UK will have on the annual financial plans, then not – even if the transitional period should be extended.

Northern Ireland

The boundary between the British province of Northern Ireland and the EU Ireland is the question of the most complicated Brexit -. Reason, the good Friday agreement that ended the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland between Irish Catholic nationalists and Protestant loyalists. It is based on a border without controls. By the Brexit a “hard limit” with re-imported passenger and freight controls, and want to avoid both sides necessarily threatened.

Both parties want to “strive”, a trade agreement six months before the end of the transitional period. If that doesn’t work, you can extend the transitional phase – or is it a “Backstop”: A catch-all solution, in the whole of the UK is in a customs Union with the EU engages. For Northern Ireland the provisions of the EU would also be subject to internal market. So there is no impact to trees or customs controls.