Only five more weeks until the official withdrawal deadline, and a chaotic Brexit increasingly likely. Yesterday evening, the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, made in Brussels to pay their respects, to talk to the President of the Commission Jean-Claude Juncker Once again about possible concessions. The stiffness of the two after the obligatory Handshake for the camera people next to each other before you disappeared without a word to the conversation behind closed doors.
Juncker had hung the expectations in the run-up to deep. “We are friendly to talk to each other, but I don’t think we will agree,” he said. Ever be to him is unclear, what were the British friends. A after the Meeting, published statements, the two sides led to the spread of the points you want to talk more. So it goes back and forth, since then, the government in London with the EU on an exit agreement has been agreed, this Deal was rejected in January in the house of Commons by a large majority.
Theresa May seems to hope to be able to get concessions from Brussels, the home of an approval for the Deal. The focus of the so-called Backstop is as a hedge, that regardless of the future relationship between the UK and the EU in Ireland, not a hard limit. For the EU to preserve the fragile peace in Northern Ireland and the integrity of the internal market. The UK should remain in the customs Union and Northern Ireland, parts of the apply the internal market rules, as long as in the negotiations on the future partnership no solution is found to avoid on the Green island were controls.
May has become hostage to the hardline
The Brexiteers see this as the attempt to bind the UK to the EU. Theresa May urged, therefore, again yesterday at the Meeting with Juncker on legally binding Commitments that this Backstop should be temporary and not a straitjacket. The European partners want to know but nothing. In fact, a Backstop with the expiration date would be no more insurance.
in view of the Blockade is to become the reputation louder, the EU needs to be flexible, and the British. But what would it be for a Signal, for example, of other smaller member States in the Baltics, if to convince the EU to Ireland in the lurch, the Brexiteers but still by the exit agreement? In addition, the Backstop is only because of the red lines is necessary, Theresa May has set in 2016, after the relatively tight vote for the exit.
The Prime Minister has made with the soft for the hard Brexit early hostage to the hardliners in your party. She has also made later, no attempt by the Opposition to a solution, or to overcome otherwise the polarisation in the country. Not only with a view to the unity of the Tories ‘ Theresa May has failed. In Brussels and in the capitals of the doubts grow whether the British Prime Minister in London at all, nor for anything a majority.
moment of truth
concessions would also be the only water on the mills of the English nationalism that has taken hold of the Brexit. Any concession would only up the pressure to make concessions. The Brexiteers have reached your goal, the EU of dividing and weaknesses. But Theresa May, the hope seems to be unimpressed by the effort not to give that up to a planned summit a week before the outlet on 29. March is still a little. At the same time, the contingency planning that has to run everywhere at full speed, the Chaos curb in a disorderly Brexit.
It is the same for all the bitter moment of truth. For EU chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, the Brexit always about damage limitation. The protagonists of the Brexit promised the country a prosperous future outside the EU. In the case of a disorderly exit threatens for all of the maximum damage, where, for the UK, the cost is significantly more devastating is likely to be.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 20.02.2019, 22:43 PM
