EU: No concessions for UK on single market

Kohoutek

European leaders have rebuffed David Cameron's plea to recognise British voters concerns over uncontrolled migration, with a historic joint statement that hardened their conditions for allowing access to the EU single market in any Brexit negotiation.

The move to scotch Westminster expectations of free movement curbs came after the EU 27 met in Brussels for the first time without the UK — a political watershed after 43 years of British membership.

“There will be no single market à la carte,” said Donald Tusk, the EU Council president, as the group met to set out the terms of engagement for any divorce talks in the wake of the Brexit referendum.

Diplomats said the joint statement was deliberately toughened up after Mr Cameron's bade farewell to the EU on Tuesday night claiming he would have avoided Brexit had European leaders let him control migration through an “emergency brake”.

With the explicit consent of Angela Merkel of Germany, a sentence was unexpectedly added to the joint statement on Wednesday making clear that “access to the single market requires acceptance of all four freedoms”, a reference to EU principles on the free movement of capital, labour, services and goods. “That was our response to Cameron,” said one senior EU diplomat, who added that leaders were not expected to go into policy issues at this stage.

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Conrad

Ermmm yes, it's called an initial bargaining position, exactly what sensible people would have expected.

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Kohoutek

Conrad wrote: »

Ermmm yes, it's called an initial bargaining position, exactly what sensible people would have expected.

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Thanks for your expert analysis.

System

I don't want us to have single market access or free movement, I voted for protectionism

Kohoutek

MatthewAinsworth wrote: »

I don't want us to have single market access or free movement, I voted for protectionism

Then you voted for economic suicide.

CLAPTON

MatthewAinsworth wrote: »

I don't want us to have single market access or free movement, I voted for protectionism

the EU is a protectism union as it has tariff and not tariff barrier and does not allow freedom of movement to most of the world except for 28 white christian european countries.

posh*spice

Buy British everyone. Our jobs depend on it.

We've made our decision. The EU won't ever listen to us.

We Stand Together.

kinger101

This is not what they negotiated with Canada, but I suspect they're not going to budge on this so we'll get something that looks like Norway or Switzerland.

kinger101

posh*spice wrote: »

Buy British everyone. Our jobs depend on it.

We've made our decision. The EU won't ever listen to us.

We Stand Together.

I can guarantee you wrote that on a computer manufactured in Asia.

System

We need a little inflation to change things, maybe wages will rise and the inflation in food, oil, etc will slow housing inflation since people will have less to put into housing in the first place.

We needed change, the old system was terrible if you're trying to save up for a house and couldn't borrow very much. It was a rich mans world and I believe those are the people more likely to lose this time, hence all the noise they made, like they did with the living wage

Our stock market and bond yields dont look all that concerned, not like Europe's stock market, we're an importer and we might keep the money within our borders, its Europe's loss

cells

posh*spice wrote: »

Buy British everyone. Our jobs depend on it.

We've made our decision. The EU won't ever listen to us.

We Stand Together.

that sounds nice but often there is no choice. We import some machinery from Italy. Guess what, the UK does not make them. We have the choice of importing from China/USA/EU and to date the EU for this product are the best and easiest and quickest to get hold of.

The UK internal market is too small to actually go up and set up such a factory to make for the UK internal market alone.