Johnson: Dear citizens; get ready for a “Hard Brexit”. Germany against France for Macron’s extreme position. An Italian was better than Barnier
In an extremely dramatic moment Boris Johnson speaks directly to the nation and announces that there will NOT be a trade agreement with the European Union "Similar to Canada", therefore based on friendship and collaboration, but this one, according to the prime minister English, was not obtained by the Union.
According to the Prime Minister, there is no collaboration from the Union, despite the 45 years he has been part of the organization, and the proposals made by Brussels are unacceptable for an independent country. Therefore, instead of a sweet agreement, similar to CETA, we are moving towards an "Australian" type agreement, which is nothing more than the application of the free trade agreements of the WTO extended to people's movements and general strategic collaboration.
Here are his words:
According to Johnson, the problem is that the Commission still wants the last word on issues such as domestic legislation and territorial waters for fisheries, and this is totally unacceptable for London.
The move has sent Germany's relations with France into crisis (but we also suppose with the Netherlands. Mrs. Merkel has "ordered" Macron and other countries to abandon their rigid position on the problem of fish exploitation of territorial waters British because “This is not the only interest at stake in the union.” It is clear that Berlin prefers to sink fishing in the North Seas and French pride rather than damage its huge trade surplus to London.
The problem is that Barnier's choice as negotiator was wrong from the start: Brussels and the French government were too close to being a third party negotiator to play his role in a balanced way. As a French pro-European, he allowed the negotiation to take a wrong turn from the start, based on maintaining an impossible status quo. An Italian mediator would have been more impartial, also because Italy is among the countries that have the least to lose from a Hard Brexit:
Johnson's move will now pit the industrial and exporting countries (especially Germany, Ireland and Belgium) against France and Holland, who will try to defend their fishing rights, which are so important to their electorate. Macron's position goes even deeper, and we will probably see a new round of "Towing" of migrant rafts by the French coast guard as a provocation to London. On the contrary, Johnson manages to distract national public opinion from the Covid-19 problem.
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