May, Tusk talk for 1st time ahead of Brexit
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BRITISH Prime Minister Theresa May and EU president Donald Tusk yesterday held their first face-to-face talks since she triggered the process for leaving the bloc as Brexit negotiations loom.
The visit follows an outcry in Britain over Tusk last week outlining draft negotiating guidelines which say that Spain should have a veto on any trade deal agreed with Britain being extended to Gibraltar.
And it comes a day after the European Parliament approved a series of Brexit demands, including calling for “substantial progress” to be made on an exit deal before talks on future trade relations can begin.
“I’ll be talking with president Tusk about how we can ensure, within the timescale we have got, that we can deliver a deal,” May said ahead of the meeting.
A European Union source told AFP that the meeting was “not part of the negotiations” but would be “a first opportunity for Tusk to explain his draft Brexit guidelines to be adopted on April 29.”
EU leaders are holding a special summit in Brussels on that date to decide a negotiation strategy.
The actual talks on Britain leaving the EU are not expected to start until May at the earliest.
Britain last week formally notified the EU of its intention to quit the bloc — the first member state ever to do so — following a shock referendum vote on June 23 last year in favor of leaving.
When announcing Britain’s intention to leave the EU, May called for the divorce and future trade deal talks to proceed in tandem, but she was rebuffed by Tusk.
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