Brussels talks: Theresa May speaks, but Emmanuel Macron stars
Seeing the leaders arrive here at the European Council you’re struck by the buoyant mood.
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Seeing the leaders arrive here at the European Council you’re struck by the buoyant mood.
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Theresa May said British voters in the referendum deemed the price of membership, freedom of movement and submission to EU laws, too great. In the years to come we will discover the price of benefits or leaving.
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It didn’t take long after last night’s attack for the backlash to begin: a clamour of protests about Angela Merkel’s open-door policy towards migrants and refugees.This has, after all, been a year when the fear of terror attacks has haunted Europe, a year which has also seen the rise of the populist right.
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President Hollande gave the sharpest words of the day on Brexit. The French President said: ” I have said it very clearly; Madame Theresa May wants a hard Brexit, then talks will be hard too.”