At the European Parliament, Nigel Farage, the leader of the anti-Europe UK Independence Party, says that the British “now offer a beacon of hope” to the rest of the European continent” after they voted to leave the European Union last week.
Farage predicts that “the UK will not be the last member state to leave the European Union.” In the wake of last Thursday’s vote, opposition parties in the Netherlands, France and Finland have already called for similar votes on whether to stay or leave the EU.
Farage says that he wanted negotiations to start swiftly but insisted that “even no deal is better for the United Kingdom than the current rotten deal that we got.”
Leader of the UKIP Nigel Farage, front right, attends a special session of European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday, June 28, 2016. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
European Council chief Donald Tusk says the EU will hold a meeting in the Slovak capital, Bratislava, in September to assess the European Union’s future in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the bloc.
Speaking in Brussels, he says the union would, however, not be able to begin negotiations on the exit until the British government has formally declared its intention to go. That “is the only legal way,” he said.
Farage is booed and jeered when he urged the EU to give Britain a good trade deal when it leaves, saying that jobs in Germany’s auto sector might be at stake if it didn’t.
— AP
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