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EU partners warn Johnson against Brexit 'provocations'
[Saudi Gazette] Britannia's Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...an partners on Friday warned Boris Johnson that his hard-line Brexit stance was putting the UK on a "collision course" with the EU and called on the new premier to avoid "provocations". Johnson is planning meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... in the next few weeks, officials said Friday, as the British premier insists he will renegotiate the UK's divorce accord with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Macron extended the invitation to Johnson in a call late Thursday from his official summer vacation residence in the south of La Belle France, where he is expected to stay for the next three weeks, said an aide. But in a sign of wariness about Johnson's anti-EU rhetoric, La Belle France's Europe Minister Amelie de Montchalin urged Britannia's new leader to create a working relationship with his partners on the continent. "From our side, we need to be responsible," she told La Belle France 2 television. "That means being clear, predictable and it means on the other side that we need to create a working relationship, that there aren't games, posturing, provocations." Macron, who has said he is happy to be considered the "bad guy" in the Brexit negotiations, is set to be a key figure during the tricky and potentially bad-tempered talks in the months ahead. "Emmanuel Macron has had one of the firmest positions of European leaders in the negotiations," said Vivien Pertusot, a research fellow at the IFRI foreign affairs think-tank and specialist on Brexit. "Nothing is going to force his hand and he has no reason to soften his position," he added. Pertusot said that upcoming negotiations would be marked by "frankness" with attention on "which side is going to blink first". Macron, a devoted Europhile who is seeking to deepen links between EU members, views Brexit as an act of self-harm by Britannia and he has been highly critical of Johnson personally in the past. The timing of the meeting between Macron and Johnson was unclear. The British prime minister is due in La Belle France to attend the G7 meeting of developed nations in Biarritz on August 24-26. Posted by: Fred 2019-07-27 |
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