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EU summit seeks British Deal
The “Brexit” is threatened by The British Prime Minister Cameron wants, therefore, for special rules fight. The solution of the refugee crisis device in the Background and is to March backwards. By Barbara Wesel, Brussels.
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EU summit: the struggle for ‘Brexit’
The main protagonist of the summit comes early and spoke only briefly before the cameras: “I’m going to the UK to fight! If I do a good Deal to get, I will accept him. But I’m not going to Deal accept, in our needs”, says David Cameron. It was not, of course, speed. But with hard work you could make it. In this way the British Prime Minister in the Brussels EU Council building and left the waiting press as smart as before.
“We are in the midst of difficult, sensitive negotiations,” European Council President Donald Tusk, before geraunt. It was All or Nothing. In Brexit talks, a departure of the UK from the EU are supposed to prevent, is never sure how much dramatic staging in the game is and how much real controversy there is more to the details. Because it is clear: David Cameron must speak with ragged shirt to come home to the British halfway to convince that he is indeed for your special requirements, a battle has struck. The Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite brought it to the point: “Everyone is his own Drama the host, and then we will be some.”
The British Deal is – in principle
Since the new year have Sherpas of the heads of government and EU lawyers of a Deal is prepared, which just with the European law is consistent and is yet in the four areas of the UK requests.
- National sovereignty: The formula of an “ever closer Union” from the EU treaties, is designed so that not every country in deepening necessarily participate in it. This dilution is pleasing, however, France does not. At the same time, the national parliaments a Red card against EU laws, if a European majority can mobilize.
- Ratio in the Euro zone: As a Non-Euroland wants the UK more Fuses for the protection of its most important financial centre, the City of London. Furthermore, we must see in Detail and to talk, says about the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
- Strengthening competitiveness: Less bureaucracy and better legislation are beyond dispute, and all the heads of government of the EU member States to sign here like.
- Cancellation of social benefits for EU workers: The compromise foresees that Cameron is using an “emergency brake” certain services, such as Lohnaufbesserungen or child support, for up to four years to suspend in may, when his social system is overloaded. Here it goes to every Detail, and a headwind coming mainly from Eastern Europe.
“We want to do everything”
This all sounds relatively simple, but was already in the run-up difficult to negotiate. And as the Brits say: “The proof of the pudding is in the eating”, the quality of the pudding is in eating. “We are quite far, we can tomorrow to get a Deal is coming,” says the Dutch Rutte, in principle, to the camp of the “FoBs” that the friends of the British.
Dutch Prime Minister Rutte: From the camp of the “FoBs”, the friends of the British
Most important friend of the British Prime Minister at the summit, however, is and remains Angela Merkel. You early some displeasure against the wishes of the British distracted: “We want to do everything to create the preconditions that the United Kingdom is a member of the EU can stay”, he sang the German Chancellor. You have, however, a lot is still to be clarified, and will hold intensive talks to give, and at the end you would have the British citizens to decide.
In the refugee crisis puts Merkel on the EU-Turkey action plan. You have a full understanding of the fact that the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said because of the terrorist attack in Ankara, not Brussels could come, said the Chancellor. Actually is for you, the only Chance is destroyed, a fairly tangible result to bring home.
Instead, it speaks to Merkel, once more, of their priorities: protection of the external borders, the fight against Menschenschmuggler and a planned burden sharing with Turkey, to the stream of refugees to curb. The German strategy is clear: The muddled question of the distribution of refugees in Europe is postponed, instead, should be pursued, what (perhaps) is reachable.
Austria and the Visegrad countries on a collision course
However, it could be your not only the Eastern Europeans a stroke by the bill. The Anger of EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was hardly a bit opaque: “Other things to worry about sometimes for Surprises, one must entertain. It goes to the announcement of Austria in the future on the day only 80 asylum seekers at its southern border want to take. Chancellor Werner Faymann defended himself: “It is impossible that Austria the refugees for the whole of Europe takes”. This puts the government in Vienna to the plans of the Eastern Europeans in the Visegrad group in the hands.
Construction of a Grenzzauns between Macedonia and Greece: the Newly defined EU-external border
The upgrade for weeks, the borders between Macedonia and Greece on to a newly defined EU-border to secure, because Greece cannot do this. Creates and Austria with his one-sided measure, a backwater on the Balkan route, likely to be the new barbed wire fences in Macedonia to quickly be closed. Then would thousands of refugees in Greece stuck. Angela Merkel is afraid of causing a destabilization of Greece, where the political and economic situation is still fragile. With their Last-Minute action to set up Hotspots and Transitcamps tried the Greek government, in turn, to prevent them in this way informally from the Schengen Zone is pushed.
Emergency British-agreement at the English Breakfast
How much Theaterdonner will be necessary to Brexit-Drama adequately perform, is still uncertain. The French President François Hollande is approximately positioned itself as a player: “A Deal is possible, but neither should the European rules be excluded.” It was about the community spirit of Europe to be true. Hollande shows of which, however, itself, little, if, for example, Angela Merkel, in the refugee assist. Nevertheless: In terms of Brexit is on the horizon in this night an agreement. And, if necessary, helps the President of the Council tomorrow morning with an English Breakfast. Then the Kompromisssuche with beans, Bacon and scrambled eggs on the home stretch.