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malaise

(268,930 posts) Wed Aug 21, 2019, 04:41 AM Aug 2019

Boris Johnson visit will not change German stance, says Merkel ally

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/21/boris-johnson-visit-will-not-change-german-stance-says-merkel-ally
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Angela Merkel is likely to give a friendly but firm rebuttal to Boris Johnson during his first overseas visit as prime minister on Wednesday, with politicians and officials in Berlin saying they do not consider that his letter to Donald Tusk asking the EU to drop the Irish backstop contains constructive proposals for further negotiations.

“The letter to the president of the European council is not a serious offer, and Boris Johnson knows it,” said Norbert Röttgen, an ally of the chancellor who heads the German parliament’s foreign affairs committee.

In a four-page letter published on Monday night, Johnson called on the EU to scrap the backstop, calling the last-resort solution for a seamless border on the island of Ireland anti-democratic and “inconsistent with the sovereignty of the UK as a state”.

The British prime minister’s first official proposal to the EU since taking office last month has been met with responses ranging from indifference to incredulity in the German capital, with senior officials saying it showed Westminster’s debate on the withdrawal agreement to be stuck on the same arguments of the so-called Brady amendment, which the EU rejected in January.
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Byebye Boris - just call elections and go back to hell

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Boris Johnson visit will not change German stance, says Merkel ally (Original Post) malaise Aug 2019 OP

has anyone found the missing link? Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2019 #1

Got to be some Yellow-Matted Swamp Scum that can take human form. calimary Aug 2019 #2

What is amazing is that both went to elite schools... GetRidOfThem Aug 2019 #3

Now, if you had gone to an elite school The King of Prussia Aug 2019 #4

you are right, I did not go to an elite school... GetRidOfThem Aug 2019 #6

You're still wondering malaise Aug 2019 #5

Hermit-The-Prog

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1. has anyone found the missing link?

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Wed Aug 21, 2019, 05:14 AM

Aug 2019

I'm sure it's driving anthropologists nuts. Somewhere in the fossil record there has to be a common swamp creature from which Tweedledum Boris and Tweedledumber Donald sprang.