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20 April 2017

ブルームバーグ:EU(欧州連合)、総選挙が英国の離脱に関する方向性を変えないとの見立てから離脱交渉ガイドライン案の文言を厳格化


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With the EU finalizing its position to take into the talks, diplomats revised the bloc’s draft negotiating guidelines, adding harder language on issues including the safeguarding of citizens rights and Britain’s potential financial dues, according to a document obtained by Bloomberg News.


“The main priority, main concern for the EU is to secure citizens’ rights on both sides,” EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier told journalists on Thursday in Warsaw, where he addressed Polish lawmakers. “We will begin talks right after the elections.”

While May said the surprise election she has called for June 8 should silence critics and strengthen her hand when she haggles with the EU, the rest of the bloc has given little indication that it’s ready to walk back from its initial hard-line positions.

European governments remain insistent the U.K. can have no membership of the single market if it limits immigration, and Britain must agree to meet its financial obligations before discussions on a future trade deal can begin.

EU Citizens

The latest negotiation draft, drawn up after a meeting of national leaders’ aides in Brussels on April 11, ramps up language on the type of agreement the EU wants when it comes to protecting the rights of EU citizens in the U.K. and British citizens in the EU at the time Britain leaves the bloc.

The guarantees need to be “comprehensive, effective, enforceable and non-discriminatory,” the draft says, and people should be able to prove their status through “smooth and simple administrative procedures.”

The document contained more detail about the composition of the “Brexit bill” that the EU wants the U.K. to pay that’s estimated to run to around 60 billion euros. It said the U.K. should resolve issues related to institutions including the European Central Bank. [...]

Already Committed

The bill isn’t about punishing the U.K. and the EU “won’t ask for a pound or euro more” than the amount Britain has already committed, Barnier said in Warsaw.

The draft also adds new language on security, in an apparent rebuff to May’s linking of continued cooperation on the issue to getting a trade deal. Any agreement will have to “address potential issues arising from the withdrawal in other areas of cooperation, including security,” the document said.

The revised text also clarified that any transition would include recognizing the region’s “judiciary,” while an earlier reference to an “ambitious free-trade agreement” was replaced by a commitment to discussing “an agreement on trade.”

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