The Countdown for the Brexit to be running. And still, it is unclear exactly what the British want. A hard Brexit, a shift soft? The EU and Germany have to wait until London finally moved.
No picture, no Statement: If the chief negotiator of the European Union the Brexit negotiations, if the Frenchman Michel Barnier is coming this Thursday to Berlin, is not desired a larger Public. The appointment is scheduled in the late afternoon, the journalists will see only a black Limousine in front of the Chancellery ancestors.
London is on the train
With German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) wants to Barnier (in the picture above, the two are to be seen some time ago in Brussels) on the state of things at the Brexit talk, that much is clear. And it remains during the course of the EU: London needs to act now, the Parliament and the government had not, as it is called in Berlin and in other European countries, often and loudly say what you want, but not what is going to happen now. The Prime Minister, Theresa May, with the EU’s long and laboriously negotiated “divorce agreement” has the house of Commons in London spectacularly rejected. It’s a tough Brexit, the departure of Britain from the EU by the end of March without an agreement is imminent.
Barnier: movement, perhaps in the “political Declaration”
The Barnier looks so. He expressed before his visit to Merkel in an Interview with the “Deutschlandfunk”: “If nothing moves, if there are no positive proposals to be put on the table, then we will be more or less bumpy, or in an accident on the No-Deal 30. March control. We are, of course, with eyes and ears what is happening in the UK. Now it remains to be hoped that Theresa May
Michel Barnier: “If nothing happens, we more or less bumpy on the No-Deal-Brexit”
in a conversation with all parties, with the Opposition and with their majority in the lower house, a positive Position refers to.” Barnier made it clear that Brussels does not want to negotiate the several hundred pages of “divorce agreement”. But the back door, the political Declaration to be added to the contract: “If, however, the British for the future, want something more than just a free trade zone, then we can deal perfectly with this political statement, which the corner posts of our future partnership relationship.”
Federal government against activism
This line, the expectation in Berlin, is tapping Merkel and Barnier in conversation once again. Further activities, such as visits by the foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, or even the Chancellor himself at Theresa May in London, as some politicians and the press comments calling for you to be assessed as counterproductive. Together almost all the political parties and parliamentary groups in the Bundestag: It is a pity and sad that the British want to go.
Last Friday, the top politicians, business representatives and other celebrities brought in a reader’s letter in the London “Times”. Among others, the CDU-Chairman, Annegret Kramp-karrenbauer and SPD had signed Director Andreas Nahles the letter. The decision of the British people for the Brexit must be respected, it said. “But the British should know that we hold no decision is irreversible. Our door is always open: Europe is home.”
Nouripour: “Spooky Mood”
Also the external expert of the parliamentary group of the Greens, Omid Nouripour, holds at the Moment a hard Brexit for the most likely variant. For the European Union, it had to be now Central to keep the rest of the EU-countries together, so Nouripour in the DW-interview. The Green politicians is not formed is also believed that the British would be helped with a time delay: “If the Prime Minister Theresa May has the authority, if the head of the Labour party Corbyn is important that he is Prime Minister, as a result of
Omid Nouripour: “Spooky Mood”
comes, then it is not relevant whether the British are still three more months ‘ time. It will not fail. But then the basic conditions in the UK, the seriousness of which requires the drama is actually missing.” Nouripour added, as he was speaking with many representatives in the British house of Commons: “The mood is semi-spooky. There are the Desperate, the powerless, who did not want to anyway the Brexit, and there are those who wanted the Brexit has always been, and the illusions created, of which you are not ready to drain.” So a large part of the population in the UK according to polls, still, the claim that after the exit from the EU, the British had 300 million pounds per week more available for your health system.
Steinmeier also in great concern
Also at the Meeting of the presidents of Germany and Austria, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Alexander van der Bellen, was the situation in the United Kingdom topic. The two heads of state met on Thursday in Liechtenstein, where they had participated on Wednesday at the celebrations of the 300 anniversary of the Principality.
Steinmeier had been shown to last several times concerned about the future of the European Union. He said this during a visit to Italy a few days ago: “In the world of tomorrow, we will give Europeans only United hearing and the answers to the big challenges can contribute to: climate change, digitization, and Migration.” But, it is very likely, then without the British.