Friday, 16 December 2016

Theresa May’s absence in EU signifies gradual UK’s gradual withdrawal from the EU

Britain gradually leaving the EU

Though the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union six months ago, the Prime Minister and her cabinet still attend meetings at Brussels to make input on policies made by the EU, and also keep applying EU rules and regulations, as the year comes to an end in about two weeks.

However the game is gradually changing, as Mrs May will have to leave the other 27 member countries, after her meeting with them, as they discuss the Syrian crisis and EU-NATO co-operation. This is because Mrs May is not invited to attend the dinner which involves the other EU member countries, where they also discuss Brexit.

Though the Prime Minister seem to be welcoming such idea, she said: "It's right that the other leaders prepare for those negotiations as we have been preparing," she said on her arrival.

"We will be leaving the EU - we want that to be a smooth and (as) orderly (a) process as possible."

Whether she or others welcome it, our gradual divorce from Europe has begun.

And as one senior diplomat put it, this is how it will be now, with no decisions made about whether the UK will be invited to meetings in Malta and Rome next year.


Britain will be increasingly excluded from discussions about the EU's future.

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