Theresa May offered fellow European Union leaders a "fair" deal on Thursday for compatriots living in Britain after Brexit, though her peers sounded sceptical and demanded more detail from a prime minister weakened by an electoral misfire two weeks ago.Given the floor for 10 minutes at the end of a Brussels summit dinner, her first since she launched the two-year withdrawal process in March, May outlined five principles, notably that no European Union citizen resident in Britain at a cut-off date would be deported.
The other 27 European Union states will also hear a report from chief negotiator Michel Barnier on his talks with David Davis earlier this week.
"In order to work on this subject we need to be enlightened more on the nature of future relations which obviously will have repercussions for the content and the dimensions of such transition periods", Barnier said. "The United Kingdom has made a decision to leave the European Union, it is not the other way around".
Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, left, is greeted by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker prior to a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, June 22, 2017.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said building a future for the remaining member states took precedence over the Brexit talks.
It was "aimed at giving as much certainty as possible to citizens who have settled in the United Kingdom, building careers and lives, and contributing so much to our society".Promising details on Monday, May also said those European Union citizens who had lived in Britain for five years could stay for life.Those there for less would be allowed to stay until they reach the five-year threshold for "settled status".
"As we know, the Brexit negotiations started three days ago".
Trade talks between the United Kingdom and European Union will not begin until October at the earliest as Brexit negotiations will follow the timetable set out by Brussels in a blow to David Davis.
Southwest monsoon may cover Telangana in three days
Hence, the IMD has also not issued any specific alerts or warnings accordingly", she said. Nanded and Parbhani districts, too, were lashed by heavy rains since Monday afternoon.
Hungary's populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, annoyed because he felt Macron had slighted Central European nations in an interview, noted that the meeting Thursday in Brussels was Macron's first EU summit.
Macron said Thursday that "Europe is not, to my mind, just an idea".
"If we back this image that Brexit perhaps would not happen, it brings an uncertainty".
But Merkel said that "for me, shaping the future of the 27 member states has priority over the question of the negotiations with Britain on its exit". European Union heads of state meet for a two-day su.
The chairman of an EU summit says European leaders have agreed to crack down on online extremism and deepen efforts against European fighters joining extremists overseas.
Tusk said when British friends asked him if he could imagine a way for Britain to remain part of the bloc, he told them: "The EU was built on dreams that seemed impossible to achieve".
Tusk told the leaders in an invitation letter that after a series of election defeats for anti-migrant parties, notably in France, the European Union is "slowly turning the corner".
"The four freedoms that give us the internal market must not be jeopardised", she said with reference to the EU's freedoms of movement of goods, capital, people, and services.
Comments