‘Dreamer’ Tusk says Brexit could be reversed
European Council President Donald Tusk gives a corner news discussion with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (not pictured) in Brussels, Belgium Jun 22, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS
BRUSSELS: European Union President Donald Tusk echoed rocker John Lennon’s “Imagine” Thursday as he pronounced he hoped Britain competence still stay in a bloc.
Speaking forward of an EU limit in Brussels where Prime Minister Theresa MayTheresa May was due to brief leaders on her Brexit plans, Tusk suggested a routine could still be reversed.
“Some of my British friends have asked me either Brexit could be reversed, and either we could suppose an outcome where a UK stays partial of a European Union,” Tusk told reporters.
“I told them that in fact a European Union was built on dreams that seemed unfit to achieve, so who knows?” a former Polish premier added.
“You might contend we am a dreamer, though we am not a usually one.”
Tusk’s final line was a quote from “Imagine”, a iconic 1971 paper to universe assent by late former Beatle Lennon.
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But Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel — who has strongly argued for EU togetherness on Brexit — argued that Tusk should let it be.
“It’s time for movement and certainty. Not for dreams and doubt #Brexit #Future of Europe,” Michel tweeted.
Calling Brexit “a pity”, Lithuania’s outspoken President Dalia Grybauskaite said: “We need to consider about a destiny and a earlier we settle a destiny a improved for all of us.”
Britain dumbfounded a EU when it voted to finish a four-decade membership of a 28-nation confederation in a referendum a year ago on Friday.
But May’s catastrophic display in elections on Jun 8 in that she mislaid her infancy has sparked conjecture that her Brexit skeleton might be watered down, or even reversed.
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble both pronounced final week that a “door was open” for Britain to sojourn in a EU.
At a limit May is due to betray a “generous offer” to solve EU concerns about a rights of 3 million European expats vital in Britain after Brexit.
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Tusk duration insisted a remaining 27 members had a renewed clarity of confidence about a bloc’s destiny after years of predicament and ascent anti-EU view culminating in a Brexit vote.
Despite it being his 80th limit as premier or EU head, “never before have we had such a clever faith that things are going in a improved direction,” he said.
“Our confidence should still be intensely discreet though we have good reason to speak about it.”
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