UK Prime Minister Theresa May has suffered with the no of the Parliament to the Brexit Deal a crushing defeat. The EU is expected of her now with a quick Plan B. Selected quotes to the vote on Tuesday evening:
“The listening house of Commons spoke and the government.” “Every day that goes by without this Problem is solved, it means more uncertainty, more bitterness and more resentment.” (Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday in the British Parliament after the rejection of the Brexit agreement it had negotiated with Brussels.)
“The time is almost expired.” (EU-Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker after the vote.)
“If a Deal is impossible, and no one wants a No-Deal, who will have the courage to say, as the only positive solution looks like?” (EU Council President Donald Tusk on Twitter)
If a deal is impossible, and no one wants no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?
— Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) 15. January 2019
“There will be no renegotiations of the exit agreement.” (Federal Chancellor of Austria, Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) on Twitter)
I regret the outcome of the #Brexit vote. The Ball is now after the vote in the British house of Commons in #London. It will, however, be no renegotiations of the exit agreement.
— Sebastian Kurz (Sebastian Kurz) 15. January 2019
“We now need to keep a cool head, even if the heart is really heavy today.” (CDU Chief Kramp-Karrenbauer on Tuesday evening at the new year reception of the Parliament’s SME circle in Berlin)
“The time of the political games is over” (The Chairman of the Greens group in the European Parliament, Ska Keller on Tuesday)
“According to Mays crashing defeat there should be new elections.” (German on the left of group leader Sahra wagenknecht on Twitter)
According to may’s crashing defeat, there should be new elections. Enough time must be given so that a new Reg. Renegotiations may result, at the end of a #Brexit Deal is that, unlike the failed Treaty, the interests of the population.
Sahra wagenknecht (@SWagenknecht) 15. January 2019
“This agreement is dead.” (The former British foreign Minister, Boris Johnson about the agreement to exit the EU. The eccentric politician had Brexit as a Protest against Mays course, abandoned his post last summer.) (chk/sda)
Created: 16.01.2019, 04:59 PM