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TEHRAN, December 30 - The European Union shows no tendency to UK's remaining in and just seeks to know the future relations with the country, said the head of the European Commission.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - In an interview to German newspaper Welt am Sonntag Jean-Claude Juncker said the EU was ready to start negotiating a new deal with Britain right after the British parliament approves the divorce deal. A vote is now due in the week starting Jan. 14.
“I am working on the assumption that it will leave, because that is what the people of the United Kingdom have decided,” he added, refusing to be drawn into whether Britain would hold a second Brexit vote. “That is for the British to decide.”
On other challenges facing Europe, Juncker said he was watching closely U.S. President Donald Trump on trade.
“I trust him for as long as he keeps his word. And if he no longer keeps it, then I will no longer feel bound by my word either,” Juncker said of tensions between the EU and Washington around car tariffs.
He said he felt EU citizens were increasingly growing apart, another problem to tackle ahead of Europe-wide parliamentary elections in May.
Source: Reuters
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