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Donald Tusk rejects Theresa May's Brexit vision!

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Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2018 · News & Politics

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The President of the EU Council, Donald Tusk, has today rejected Theresa May's vision of how a post Brexit UK/EU relationship would look.

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The EU Council president put forward draft negotiation guidelines today that limits the options for a future relationship to a free trade deal only.

“It should come as no surprise that the only remaining possible option is a free trade agreement. - he said in Luxembourg today - I hope that it will be ambitious and advanced and we will do our best… Anyway it will only be a trade agreement.”

“A pick and mix approach for a nonmember state is out of the question. We are not going to sacrifice these principles. It’s simply not in our interest.”

The draft guidelines have yet to be negotiated and agreed by the EU27 but do mention trade in services to a degree, but it makes no specific reference to financial services, which the UK is of course keen to see included in any deal.

UKIP Interim leader Gerard Batten MEP said in response:

"The EU wants to have its cake and to eat it. Their published guidelines today should be unacceptable to the British government and to the 17.4 million people who voted leave. It is clearly not in the national interest to accept a free trade deal which does not involve financial services."

And in his contribution to The Road to Brexit speeches, the UK Chancellor, Philip Hammond, today laid out why the EU should include financial services in any Brexit deal.

Consumers and businesses across the EU would pay the cost if an attempt was made to break up the City's European role he said.

He also said that this was not a zero sum game where some EU financial centres would benefit from a breakup of the City of London, the spoils were far more likely to go to New York or Singapore he said.

He also pointed out that the depth and experience of the City could not be mapped, let alone replicated, so it would be in everyone's interests to include financial services in the deal.

But while Eurocrats reject all of our proposals, they have come out with some cherry picking demands of their own.

Not only do the new guidelines say our relationship will be limited, they say that any partnership should cover ".... trade and economic co-operation as well as other areas, in particular the fight against terrorism and international crime, as well as security, defence and foreign policy."

The new EU Council guideline also demands “reciprocal access and resources” in UK fishing waters in exchange for market access.

UKIP MEP Mike Hookem, who has been saying for weeks that the UK fishing industry will be bargained away again, said:

"With a weak Prime Minister and feeble range of Ministers at the helm of negotiations, what hope do our already embattled and embittered coastal communities have of a post-Brexit renaissance for the UK fishing industry."

Other topics include Nigel Farage commenting on fisheries and my view on the UK establishment's 'institutionalised' support for all things EU!

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/07/uks-brexit-red-lines-will-limit-depth-of-future-trade-deal-eu-guidelines

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-tusk-issues-draft-guidelines-for-post-brexit-trade-deal/

https://www.politico.eu/article/brexit-negotiation-philip-hammond-citys-role-impossible-to-replicate/

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