Europe's Brexit Unity Under Pressure as Johnson Makes G-7 Debut
(Bloomberg) -- U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday stepped up his campaign to convince the European Union to reopen Brexit negotiations, using the Group of Seven summit in France to test the bloc’s united front.
Johnson, in optimistic mood after meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Emmanuel Macron in the past week, sat down in the Basque beach resort of Biarritz with European Council President Donald Tusk, his first meeting on Brexit with an EU official. Johnson started Sunday with breakfast with U.S. President Donald Trump, who described him as “the right man for the job” to take the fight to the Europeans.
It won’t be easy. While EU leaders are politely listening to Johnson, they have given no indication they’re ready to give the prime minister the concessions he’s asking for. With just over two months until the U.K.’s scheduled departure, the prospect of Britain leaving the bloc without an agreement and the safety net of a transition period is looming.
Johnson began his meeting with Tusk saying that the two men had been in "completely glutinous agreement on most of the issues that have been raised" so far at the G-7, a demonstration, he said of "the closeness of the U.K. to our European friends which will persist beyond Oct. 31, whatever happens." Tusk replied that he couldn’t agree more.
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