Tag: Jean-Claude Juncker

• Friday, June 22nd 2018 - 08:52 UTC

  Unequivocal EU support for Dublin: no Brexit deal without agreement on the Irish border

  

  European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has warned the UK there will be no Brexit deal without agreement on the Irish border. On a visit to Dublin, Mr Juncker said fellow EU member states would not let Ireland be “isolated” on the impasse, insisting the demand for a resolution was a Europe-wide demand.

• Monday, April 23rd 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  EU and Mexico reach new trade agreement: tariff cuts for European cheese and pork

  

  The European Union and Mexico reached an agreement on Saturday on a new free trade deal, a coup for both parties in the face of increased protectionism from the United States under President Donald Trump. Since its plans for a trade alliance with the United States were frozen after Trump's election victory, the EU has focused instead on trying to champion open markets and seal accords with other like-minded countries.

• Friday, April 13th 2018 - 09:07 UTC

  Juncker insists that Brexit deal must “fully respect” Spain's veto on Gibraltar

  

  Jean Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, has again underlined the EU’s position that the Brexit deal must “fully respect” the terms of the Gibraltar veto granted to Spain in the bloc’s negotiating guidelines.

• Wednesday, March 14th 2018 - 09:37 UTC

  UK will come to regret its decision to leave the EU, says Juncker

  

  The UK will come to regret its decision to leave the European Union, Brussels’ top official has claimed. European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said things “cannot remain as they are” for the UK in its relationship with the EU after leaving the bloc.

• Friday, January 19th 2018 - 09:56 UTC

  Juncker pledges funding for Ireland's cross-border projects will continue after Brexit

  

  The president of the European Commission has indicated that funding for Ireland's cross-border projects will continue after Brexit. Jean-Claude Juncker said he could see “no more important use” of the European budget than maintaining the peace process in Ireland. He was speaking at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

• Thursday, January 18th 2018 - 09:48 UTC

  Juncker renews offer to UK to stay in EU; Brexit is a catastrophe and “the blame is on many”

  

  The European Union chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker renewed an offer to Britain on Wednesday to stay in the European Union and said he hoped that even if it goes through with Brexit it would apply to rejoin the bloc.

• Wednesday, January 17th 2018 - 09:25 UTC

  Europe tells UK that “our hearts are still open”, and hopes London will listen

  

  Europe’s top two bureaucrats believe the UK could still yet change its mind on Brexit. Donald Tusk, the European Council president, said “our hearts are still open” to “our British friends” to remain in the bloc. And quoting the UK Brexit secretary, he added: “Wasn’t it David Davis himself who said ‘if a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy’? We here on the continent haven’t had a change of heart – our hearts are still open to you.”

• Tuesday, January 9th 2018 - 09:34 UTC

  Juncker convinced Brexit will happen, but is concerned about budget shortfall

  

  European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker says he believes Brexit will go ahead and the EU should tackle its looming budget shortfall. “Don't believe those who say that it's not going to happen and that people in the UK have realized their error... I don't think that's going to be the case,” he told a Brussels conference.

• Monday, December 11th 2017 - 15:36 UTC

  EU/Japan sign free trade deal comprising 30% of global GDP and reaffirm rejection of protectionism

  

  The European Union and Japan have concluded negotiations on a giant free trade deal that they said was reached while “fighting the temptation of protectionism”, a message apparently directed at U.S. President Donald Trump. The deal, which the EU called its biggest ever, must be signed and ratified by both sides.

• Friday, December 8th 2017 - 21:13 UTC

  Breakthrough in Brexit negotiations; Juncker calls it a compromise

  

  The European Commission said on Friday enough progress had been made in Brexit negotiations with Britain to allow a second phase of talks on future relations to begin, ending an impasse over the status of the Irish border.