Wednesday, June 29, 2016

UK must play by EU rules for market access - Hollande

French President Francois Hollande has stressed that Britain would have to abide by European Union rules once it divorced from the bloc if it wanted to maintain access to the single market.

Speaking after a European Council summit, Mr Hollande also said that defence and energy agreements with Britain would remain in place after it terminated its membership of the EU.

Meanwhile, European member states would likely have to increase private and public investments to offset the economic impact of the Brexit vote on growth, Mr Hollande said. 

He added that if Britain quits the single market there is no reason for the EU to let euro clearing operations take place in Britain.


  • The UK’s access to European markets after it exits the bloc will be conditional on honouring all four basic EU freedoms, Hungarian state TV has quoted Prime Minister Victor Orban as saying.
  • The four freedoms are the free movement of goods, people, capital and services.

"If you want to know the mood at the talks, there was sadness, sympathy, disappointment and uncertainty," Mr Orban told a press conference aired by state television.

  • EU leaders, with the exception of British Prime Minister David Cameron, met during the second day of a two-day summit in Brussels, as the bitter fallout from the UK referendum result continues.

EU President Donald Tusk said EU leaders will hold a summit - without Britain - in Bratislava on 16 September to discuss further the fallout from Britain's decision to leave the EU.

Mr Tusk also said that leaders made it "crystal clear" that access to the single market requires acceptance of all four freedoms, "including freedom of movement"........http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0629/798876-eu-summit-brexit/
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  1. Brexit: pas d'accès au marché unique sans libre circulation...

    Accéder au marché unique européen ne se fera pas sans garantir les quatre libertés de circulation fondamentales européennes, et notamment la libre circulation des travailleurs, a affirmé mercredi le Premier ministre Charles Michel à l'issue d'une réunion informelle des 27 Etats membres de l'UE à laquelle le Royaume-Uni ne participait pas.

    La libre circulation des personnes et celle des travailleurs est un des points qui ont cristallisé le débat en vue du référendum britannique qui a vu, jeudi dernier, le "Leave" l'emporter. Le Royaume-Uni nourrit l'espoir, dans son processus de sortie de l'UE, de négocier un accès au marché unique européen tout en limitant la circulation des travailleurs européens, notamment ceux provenant de l'est. Réunis mercredi à 27 pour déterminer l'attitude à adopter ces prochaines semaines face au Royaume-Uni, les dirigeants européens ont réaffirmé l'idée que l'accès au marché suppose l'adhésion aux quatre libertés, et donc aussi à la liberté de circulation des travailleurs......rtl.be
    29/6/16

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