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Brexit: UK official warns EU over talks 'insult'
bbc.com ^ | May, 25, 2018 | BBC

Posted on 05/24/2018 9:48:28 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

UK officials have warned the EU that its approach to Brexit negotiations risks damaging its security and economic relationship.

It comes as a senior EU official said the UK was living in a "let's just keep everything we have now... fantasy".

A UK official described those remarks as "laughable" and warned against "trying to insult us".

Meanwhile the UK says the EU should repay £1bn if it is excluded from the Galileo satellite navigation system.

In a briefing on Thursday, following three days of Brexit talks, a senior EU official told journalists the UK was in a fantasy that everything could stay as it is, which would mean that the EU would have to change so that Britain could remain the same.

"I'm a bit concerned because the precondition for fruitful discussions has to be the UK accepts the consequences of its own choices," the official said.

"The sooner we move beyond 'let's just keep everything we have now'… the sooner we move away from this fantasy, then the quicker we can make progress."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; eu; europeanunion; theresamay; unitedkingdom

1 posted on 05/24/2018 9:48:29 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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2 posted on 05/24/2018 9:49:45 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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Britons dash to become German before Brexit
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1IO0VY?__twitter_impression=true


3 posted on 05/24/2018 9:55:01 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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EU to UK: We won’t reimburse Galileo satellite funding

The official warned that the U.K. having access to sensitive information flowing through Galileo could threaten the EU’s autonomy, “or to use a term dear to the U.K., it will breach the sovereignty of the EU.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-to-uk-we-wont-reimburse-galileo-satellite-funding-brexit/


4 posted on 05/24/2018 10:14:24 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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Galileo (satellite navigation)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)


5 posted on 05/24/2018 10:15:29 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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The EU has leapt ahead of the UK in the pursuit of free trade deals with Australia and New Zealand after member states gave the green light for talks to start within weeks.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/may/22/eu-trade-talks-australia-new-zealand-brexit-commonwealth


6 posted on 05/24/2018 10:22:25 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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So far it seems Very likely that the globalist, EU Rulers will succeed in subverting, smashing, killing the will of the people.

Just like the (really) bad old days.


7 posted on 05/24/2018 10:28:22 PM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Avenue.)
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Talked to a millennial Brit a few days after Brexit.

He said the scoop prior to the vote was that the EU wanted it’s own army and the Brit’s should pay for it and that was a major motivation.

I was in the UK the week before the vote. 80% of the signs I saw said YES . (a.k.a.LEAVE!!)

The EU is a major sucking machine.

Progressives.(A hundred years and still running) They say they will suck off of other people but they really want to steal from you.


8 posted on 05/24/2018 10:50:02 PM PDT by lizma2
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The EU must try to punish the UK for leaving or many more members will also leave, toppling the entire EU.


9 posted on 05/24/2018 11:16:41 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Liberal bastions are full of misogyny, drugs, pedophilia and racism (Hollywood, Academia, DC))
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The memos about the EU army leaked before the election, including the part about, “don’t let this info leak before the Brexit vote”.


10 posted on 05/25/2018 12:33:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Bloc could end up on better terms with the Commonwealth nations after Brexit than UK

Australia, EU, New Zealand

11 posted on 05/25/2018 3:24:11 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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So many Mercedes limos....so many caviar and brie luncheons...so many dachas on the coast of Spain.Life’s gotta be a grind for top EU officials in Brussels!


12 posted on 05/25/2018 4:35:03 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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Britons dash to become German before Brexit

I've seen statements from Ireland's citizenship agency that applications for Irish passports have skyrocketed since the Brexit vote.

13 posted on 05/25/2018 4:38:47 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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The rest of the story...

https://themarketmogul.com/british-civil-servants-seek-eu-passports-brexit-clock-ticks/


14 posted on 05/25/2018 4:41:43 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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