The UK and 27 EU countries say ‘ Yes ‘ to Brexit Treaty. Joy is not. The EU does not want a Brexit. The Prime Minister May violent home against the wind. From Brussels Bernd Riegert.
It is a very short EU summit: Just one hour of scheduled EU Council President Donald Tusk as the host for the “working session” to a Brexit. As soon as the 27 heads of state and heads of government have exchanged, to let the British Prime Minister in the summit room at the Europa building in Brussels. All sides agree that the documents, there is a right to exit the contract between the 27 and the United Kingdom, and the conditions of article 50 of the EU Treaty, which governs the withdrawal of a member country, enough is done.
After almost 20 months of negotiations are on the table in Brussels:
– a nearly 600 pages thick discharge contract, which provides that the United Kingdom will remain until the end of 2020, still a member of the single market but no say more. In this “transition phase” is to be concluded an agreement on future relations. In addition, London will have to pay 39 billion euros into the EU coffers.
– a 26-page statement to the future of relations after 2020. A long list of trade, on transport to security, political cooperation is what needs to be regulated. Aim is a contract that allows for no border between the EU member Ireland and the United Kingdom of Northern Ireland. At the same time, the British want to leave but a customs Union and the internal market. How this would work is still uncertain. You agree on an agreement, the United Kingdom is automatically a customs Union with the EU, which results in the Brexit-hard-liners to heavy resistance.
a very brief joint statement that as a priority a fisheries agreement should be created, the reasons, the access to British fish and European markets. France had insisted.
– a further Letter, which assures that all of the issues that affect the British territory of Gibraltar at the southern tip of Spain, to be discussed by the UK and Spain separately. Spain wants to document his claim to the 1713 lost rock solid. For five days, the socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was threatened with a Veto, which he withdrew only on Saturday, so to speak, at the last Minute.
Everything remains as it is until the end of 2020, also in Gibraltar: The British rock in the South of Spain, the last stumbling block was
It comes up no joy
On the eve of Brexit-summit, the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, for the second Time in a week, had met the EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and the President of the Council Donald Tusk. Since the dispute were cleared points but already, you could talk about the fundamentals.
Donald Tusk made it clear once again that this will not be a happy summit. The EU regretted the fact that the UK, for 29. March wants to leave the community after 46 years. Tusk was relieved that it had managed to limit the damage that Brexit could do, as far as possible. “We intend to work resolutely is the best possible relationship to the UK, as friends and partners,” wrote Donald Tusk on Saturday night in his invitation to the summit. “During the negotiations, it was not to win or to lose. We all wanted a fair Agreement. I think we have reached the best possible compromise.”
Each other courage: the Prime Minister May (l.) re-visiting head of the European Commission Juncker
The house is on the course
A hard Brexit, so a withdrawal without an agreement and without a soft landing in a transitional regime, can be avoided from the point of view of the EU now. It is the consent of the British Parliament, including the necessary implementing legislation to the Brexit is still missing. In the course of the last week, it looked as if the British Prime Minister had no majority in favour of the Brexit Deal is this Sunday sign. The government has begun a media campaign to convince voters and voters, which, in turn, put pressure on their lower house members.
After the summit in Brussels, the Brexit battle in the UK continues: The country is divided
The former Brexit-Minister Dominic Raab has sharply criticised the agreement. “I’m not saying that we should better stay in the EU. But if you put me in front of the dial of this agreement, or other membership – then I say: now This is worse than the state before. We will be bound to the same rules as in the past, and we join the conversation, or you could control it,” said Raab in a BBC Interview.
A vote in the British Parliament is to the 10. December around provided. The Brexit Deal survived in the lower house, would be the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It must also agree. Then the final, legally binding vote in the Council of the European Union (the Europe Ministers of the 27) in January or February. Only then can the Treaty can enter into force. The special summit this Sunday will be another Elevator in the Brexit-Drama, but not the highlight.