Macron speaks against long Brexit delay at EU summit: diplomats

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Macron speaks against long Brexit delay at EU summit: diplomats

 

 

French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at a European Union emergency summit on Brexit in Brussels, Belgium, April 10, 2019. Alastair Grant/Pool via REUTERS

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron told his European Union peers on Wednesday any Brexit delay beyond June 30 would undermine the bloc, diplomatic sources said.

 

EU leaders are meeting in Brussels to grant Britain a second Brexit delay, under certain conditions. Most of the 27 national leaders had already spoken in the first three hours of their discussions, but the sources said they expected the talks to go on well into the night.

 

France has pushed the hardest line on Brexit in the EU, and some of the national diplomats from other member states expressed annoyance at the fact that Paris was introducing even more uncertainty into the summit.

 

"Their behaviour is annoying, just posturing to show how important and powerful they are," one EU diplomat said. "On the one hand, they say no-deal is not that bad but then ask EU help for their fisheries in a no-deal. It's either one or the other."

 

Another diplomat said: "Macron just made a powerful statement. (He) said anything beyond June 30 would jeopardise the EU and we shouldn't go there."

 

"He is in a bit of a schizophrenic situation - (his) domestic audience demands that he is tough on Britain for historic reasons. On the other hand, France is among the most-hit in any no-deal Brexit. It will take hours before we pull him down from his tree."

 

EU diplomats and officials said the mood in the room was in favour of a long extension before Macron took the floor and highlighted the risks he thought it posed to the bloc.

 

(Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-04-11

 

 

 

[baboon]

We have until October the 31st. See you all back here on October the 25th when shag all has been sorted and we are back at square one...

[Basil B]

wonder what they had for dinner, May was dining alone in an antechamber, rumour is she had hard cheese and sour grapes...

[Basil B]

Is it a compromise or time to hold a referendum?  

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Theresa May is holding a bilateral meeting with Donald Tusk right now - as we don't know if she will accept the extension although we presume that she will, says the BBC's Christian Fraser.

The conditions which come with the delay also need to be worked out, he added.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-parliaments-47855440

[Basil B]

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The BBC's Katya Adler said that, if the 31 October extension is confirmed, French President Emmanuel Macron "won the day" as his was the most hardline voice in the room.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47889404

 

We have all seen the films, and as I recall Emmanuel was a lady who got well and truly ******

[freebyrd]

4 hours ago, Basil B said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47889404

 

We have all seen the films, and as I recall Emmanuel was a lady who got well and truly ******

That post was Kristel clear ????.

 

[Baerboxer]

Of course France wants to show all the other 26 countries that they really run the EU!

 

Then Macron wakes up from his wet dream and hears Merkel laughing!

 

Napoleon syndrome has returned. Vivre le petit Emperor!

 

 

[Scott]

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