Even after the EU summit, the British Prime Minister wants to negotiate still more about the Brexit. Each is in Brussels, is clear that now, more important issues need to be addressed, says Bernd Riegert.
Let’s move on: EU without the UK is not nice, but doable
Annoyed by the Brexit theatre, the Lithuanian state President Dalia Grybauskaite brought the Frustration of many Europeans to the point: The Brits should have confidence on Santa Claus, if you believed that the EU should fulfill all your desires to exit from the club. Even the normally wildly kissing European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has briefly let the mask of harmony to fall. Nebulous and imprecise, the positions of the British to the self-desired exit, etched Juncker are to meet at the recent EU summit in Brussels.
The message to the arg-stricken head of government, Theresa May and the restive house of Commons in London is to Take the Brexit Treaty, as it was negotiated in two years of effort, fully, or let it remain. Now really is the time to make a decision. The Brexit overshadowed for too long-all the action within the European Union.
The British are only one Problem of many
Has truly also other problems: it needs a common migration policy. The common internal market, which is in many Places, but the core of the economic success in the EU, needs to be further developed. Defence and security policy must be placed on a broader basis. The trade relations with other regions of the world must be rearranged. The Euro currency Union needs to be better against future financial crises. The equalization of living conditions between the rich and poorer member States must be accelerated to meet the social Concerns of EU citizens. Taken all together, is necessary to the Growth of populist and in many Parts of the EU to stop enemy movements and parties, or at least mitigate.
Europe Correspondent Bernd Riegert
The mission of the EU is to ensure peace and social welfare. The order is not to allow the British a soft exit from the club. The United Kingdom is not the centre of Europe, and certainly not the navel of the world. Like to see a lot of British different. They hang on to an outdated, nationalist Illusion. If the British refuse to use it in the house of the EU, the spacious outlet of the contract in fact, there are not be another Referendum and the hard Brexit on the 29. March 2019 takes place, then the EU will be able to cope with the consequences better than the United Kingdom.
The EU must ensure that its members, not to the Ex-members
We have reached the point where it becomes clear that the unprecedented exit from the EU has a price. And is for great Britain and Northern Ireland is higher than for the other 27 member States. The to now even the government in London. Instead of working with theoretical fallback positions for Northern Ireland, which will be used in three or four years of Transition, however, from any side, it would make more sense if the EU would provide to the member States of Poland, Hungary, Romania or Italy. In the case of the first three, the problem is the rule-of-law principles. In Italy, a financial crisis dräut, instigated by an unpredictable populist government in Rome. These are the really crucial issues of the next year.
Even if it’s coming in March to a Brexit, without the transitional arrangements, were not of the world. For flight and travel, it, supply chains and financial transactions, the EU would conclude short-term agreements with the British authorities. Not ideal, but doable.
Even after the exit of the British, the thing would not be done Yes. One way or the negotiations on a free trade agreement must follow. Can take years and will strain the nerves of the participating heads of state and heads of government still belonged. There is only one difference: The United Kingdom as a third state outside the EU will be in a non-weaker negotiating position than it is today. Hopefully, Theresa May, and the brave Brexiteers is clear.