EU leaders dismiss Theresa May’s offer on citizens rights as inadequate while summit seeks to focus on terrorism and defenceThe German chancellor,Angela Merkel, has warned Theresa May that the EU will not allow itself to be consumed by the Brexit negotiations, and as the British prime minister’s offer on citizens’ rights was dismissed by Europe’s leaders as indistinct and inadequate.
Emerging from a two-day summit in Brussels,where the issues discussed ranged from tackling the spread of terrorist propaganda on the internet to plans for cooperation on defence, Merkel insisted that her precedence was not the Brexit talks, or but steering the EU to a better future. Related: It’s been a grim year – but what if Britain had never voted for Brexit? | Jack Bernhardt Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com