LONDON/BRUSSELS –
After leaving the European Union (EU) in march 2019, it wants the United Kingdom, a temporary customs union with the EU. That plan has the British government announced. Last weekend, wrote two ministers already in an op-ed that the United Kingdom a transitional period wants after the brexit, so no chaos ensues and companies know where they are.
Minister David Davis, is responsible for the brexit, is that a temporary arrangement, his country no money should cost. He said that the transition period is probably about two years will cover. What Davis is concerned should in each case after the British elections scheduled for 2022 a final settlement detail.
Guy Verhofstadt, president of the liberal group in the European parliament, called the British proposal a “fantasy.” The Belgian ex-prime minister holds negotiations on behalf of the parliament in the eye and suggests that “invisible borders” are not possible in the British plans. “First, we have the rights of citizens and a financial plan to secure,” says Verhofstadt to the priorities that Brussels has made.
The negotiations on the scheidingsvoorwaarden be about two weeks continued in Brussels.