Jean-Claude Juncker: EU won't renegotiate Brexit deal
Source: Politico
No. More. Negotiation.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker pointedly warned the U.K. that there would be no renegotiation of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement despite Prime Minister Theresa May's failure so far to win enough support to ratify the deal in the British parliament.
Speaking in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Juncker expressed unhappy surprise that Brexit would once again be a subject of conversation at an EU leaders' summit this week — this time as a result of May's decision to delay a ratification vote that had been scheduled for Tuesday evening.
Juncker also forcefully defended the so-called "backstop" provision on the Ireland-Northern Ireland border which has been the focus of opposition among British MPs.
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