Tag: Donald Tusk

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 17:45 UTC

  Brexit: Full text of Theresa May's letter to European Council president Donald Tusk

  

  Dear President Tusk
  On 23 June last year, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. As I have said before, that decision was no rejection of the values we share as fellow Europeans. Nor was it an attempt to do harm to the European Union or any of the remaining member states.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 17:33 UTC

  “We already miss you. Thank you and good bye”

  

  In a press conference in Brussels, following the hand-delivered letter, EC president Donald Tusk sent a message to the UK: “We already miss you. Thank you and goodbye.”

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 17:21 UTC

  “An historic moment from which there can be no turning back”, May tells Parliament

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May has kicked off the two-year process of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union in what she said was “an historic moment from which there can be no turning back”. Minutes after a letter informing the European Council of the UK’s intention to leave, Mrs May told the House of Commons that the Government was acting on “the democratic will of the British people” expressed in last year’s referendum vote for Brexit.

• Tuesday, March 21st 2017 - 06:55 UTC

  UK will notify withdrawal from EU on 29 March; talks expected to begin in May

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May will trigger EU withdrawal talks under Article 50 on March 29, Downing Street has announced. The Prime Minister’s letter officially notifying the European Council of the UK’s intention to quit will set in train a two-year negotiation process expected to lead to Britain leaving the EU on 29 March 2019.

• Friday, December 16th 2016 - 10:00 UTC

  Brexit: UK wants to first discuss status of Britons in Europe and EU citizens in UK

  

  UK Prime Minister Theresa May wants an early deal on what Brexit means for the status of Britons in Europe and EU citizens in the UK, she has told EU leaders. The prime minister's comments came as she updated fellow leaders on the UK's plans for leaving the European Union.

• Friday, October 21st 2016 - 08:25 UTC

  UK is still a full member of the EU and will attend all meetings, PM May tells Europe

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May told EU leaders that Britain would not just rubber-stamp agreements made between the other member states when they meet as 27. In her first European Council, she said that as long as the UK was a full member of the EU, it wanted a seat at the table for discussions over the bloc’s future.

• Monday, October 3rd 2016 - 07:03 UTC

  PM May announces Brexit process should be over by 2019 with strong limits on immigration policy

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday that Britain would begin the process of withdrawing from the European Union by the end of March and suggested that she would seek a clean break that makes limits on immigration a priority.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2016 - 06:15 UTC

  EU Parliament president calls Argentina a crucial associate in the redefinition of global relations

  

  Visiting president of the European Parliament Martin Shultz called on his Argentine hosts to leave behind those chapters “with no dialogue” and concentrate on Mercosur/EU trade and cooperation negotiations that have been stalled for almost twenty years, taking advantage of an Argentina opened to the world and an ally when international relations are being redefined.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2016 - 06:54 UTC

  Macri begins official visit to Germany looking for trade and investment

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri arrived in Berlin on Monday, in his first official trip to the country and as part of an European tour aimed at strengthening Argentina’s ties with the European Union. Macri arrived from Brussels where he met EU authorities and the day before, was in Paris with president Francois Hollande.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2016 - 04:33 UTC

  Brexit: The apocalypse

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - How’s this for apocalyptic? “As a historian I fear Brexit [a British vote to leave the European Union in the referendum on June 23] could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but also Western political civilization in its entirety,” said Donald Tusk, the president of the European Union, in an interview published on Monday in the German newspaper Bild.