Comment by Fabian Picardo, Chief Minister Gibraltar:
”Here is our statement about #Gibraltar’s future trade and other arrangements after #Brexit. We will stick with Britain and look forward to negotiations with the EU as part of the whole UK family”
Here above is the full statement.
Gibraltar will be a UK landborder to EU on 29 March 2019.
“You say you love your children above all else, yet you are stealing their futures right before their very eyes,”
This 15-year-old Swedish activist GretaThunberg just called out world leaders at the UN Climate Conference in Katowice Poland, for their global inaction on climate change.
Thunberg became famous in August 2018 when she started a strike sitting outside the Swedish päParliament under the slogan “School Strike for the Climate”. Grete was invited by UN Secretray General to address the conference from the big stage and how she did it!
You can see her speech here: Greta Thunberg speech UN Climate Conference
Fraser Nelson Editor at The Spectator writes an interesting article today and you findnitvhere below. Nelson says: “The E.U. is v close to a deal. If it allows Britain the right to exit a new deal in future (in a way that any country can exit any agreement from Nato to E.U. itself) then her deal passes. Panic over. But if it won’t allow this, the deal is dead”.
I think that there is a chance that EU could make statements assuring that the backstop never will be used. There is a misudnerstanding that EU wants the backstop, but is equally in thenijterest of the EU to find a workable solution for the border as well as a ä FTA as soon as possible.
“Theresa May’s week has gone from bad to worse. In order to win the confidence vote tabled against her on Wednesday, May had to make several promises to her MPs: not to fight the next election, to get the DUP back on side – and to find a legally binding solution to the Irish backstop. The latter pledge appears to have already hit the buffers after a disastrous night for May at the EU council summit.
The Prime Minister attended the summit on Wednesday evening in the hope of securing new concessions to her Brexit deal. She asked the EU 27 to ‘work together intensely’ to tweak the deal – with the UK suggesting a new target for a trade deal by the end of 2021, in order to show the backstop was not indefinite.
However, EU leaders – along with the Commission – were thoroughly unimpressed by the whole thing. It seems that rather than be enticed to help May they questioned whether they should move forward at all – criticising the Prime Minister for not being clear – when questioned – about what she needs. There was a feeling in Brussels that May cannot say what will get this deal over the line, so what’s the point trying to help?
Matters are so bad that after the address the EU27 actually removed supportive lines from a draft statement drawn up to help ease British concerns. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker then added insult to injury by using a press conference to have a go at May for her ‘nebulous and imprecise’ approach. It’s not even clear there will be a Brexit summit in January.
So, has May really run out of road this time? It could still be the case that Brussels come round to the UK side’s thinking over Christmas. Figures like Juncker do not wish to appear too open to renegotiation in part because were they to move now, Brexiteers in Parliament could pressure May to demand even more concessions. But it’s clear that this trip has only served to undermine May’s approach– at a time when she desperately needed a boost. If this deal is to have any chance of passing Parliament, the backstop arrangement will need to be amended. Without that, the most likely scenarios are a second referendum, no deal or/and a general election. No.10 will be hoping for some supportive language from EU leaders today before everyone heads home from the summit”
Source: The Spectator
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