“We expect as soon as possible a vote by the British parliament on the withdrawal agreement,” the European council president, Charles Michel, told reporters at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels. “It is important to have the clarity as soon as possible. We are ready. The EU will negotiate to ensure to have a close cooperation in the future with the UK.”
Boris Johnson’s election triumph has been greeted with calls for swift ratification of the Brexit deal by EU leaders and a demand for clarity from Downing Street on the UK’s objectives in the negotiation on the future relationship.
“We expect as soon as possible a vote by the British parliament on the withdrawal agreement,” the European council president, Charles Michel, told reporters at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels. “It is important to have the clarity as soon as possible. We are ready. The EU will negotiate to ensure to have a close cooperation in the future with the UK.”
Michel, a former prime minister of Belgium, added that “the integrity of the single market is a very important issue for us”.
Earlier, the European commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, had said she would “immediately listen to the prime minister, the new prime minister, to be reassured what the pathway is”.
The size of Johnson’s majority is seen as a welcome development among the EU’s leaders, who believe it will give the newly elected prime minister free rein to decide his negotiating objectives and compromise in the talks where necessary.
Once the UK parliament has ratified the withdrawal agreement, the European parliament will give its consent in January ahead of the UK’s departure at the end of the month.
EU leaders are waiting to see what incarnation of the prime minister will emerge now he is secure in Downing Street.
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