Stiff demands from the other 27 European Union member
countries awaits Theresa May once Article 50 is triggered to start the process
of negotiation over Britain’s relationship with the EU in the future.
Each EU member countries have different priorities to table
for negotiation, as the UK is determined to take full control of its boarders. Some
of such priorities include, free movement, security and tourism.
According to the co-director of London-based research group
Open Europe, Stephen Booth, stated: “Clearly there are going to be different
issues raised by all the different sides.”
A number of countries, including Germany, Portugal and the
Czech Republic, are insisting that Britain must accept free movement of labour,
goods and services if it must be a part of the single.
Contrarily, only three other countries - Denmark, Austria and
Bulgaria - share the UK’s concern over immigration.
As revealed by a survey conducted by the Conservative Home
website, 69% favours a deal with the EU where the UK “does not remain a single
market member, and immigration is subject to full control rather than a
time-limited emergency brake.”
But it appears Eastern European nations may push for the UK to
continue to pay the EU to maintain funds to their regions.
Other difficulty that the UK may face are the desire of the Irish
government to prevent a hard border with Northern Ireland and Austria wants to
stop the UK from awarding power subsidies for the Hinkley Point nuclear plant
if it receives approval.
Baltic and eastern European states, in the meantime, are worried
about security pressures from Russia.
Also, Ireland still wants to give Britain as much access to
the single market as possible.
Some of the EU members are expecting to profit from Brexit
but Rome wants banks to move to Italy instead.
Greece wants to capitalise on Brexit for shipping jobs and
Luxembourg wants to attract financial jobs from the City of London.
Luxembourg’s Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna said: “After
London, we are the first and obvious choice. We have already many British
players in our country.
“And we have a lot of political stability and hence a lot of
predictability. That’s what investors are looking for.”
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