{"id":10490,"date":"2017-03-10T09:38:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T09:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/britons-should-keep-eu-rights-post-brexit-guy-verhofstadt\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T09:38:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T09:38:16","slug":"britons-should-keep-eu-rights-post-brexit-guy-verhofstadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/britons-should-keep-eu-rights-post-brexit-guy-verhofstadt\/","title":{"rendered":"Britons should keep EU rights post-Brexit &#8212; Guy Verhofstadt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Media captionGuy Verhofstadt tells Today a special arrangement could be made for British citizens who wish to remain in the EU<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">British citizens should be allowed to keep the benefits of EU membership, according to the chief Brexit negotiator at the European Parliament. <\/p>\n<p>Guy Verhofstadt said a system is needed for individuals to keep rights, such as freedom to travel and voting in European elections. <\/p>\n<p>The former prime minister of Belgium said Brexit had been a &quot;tragedy&quot; for people in the UK and EU. <\/p>\n<p>He also warned the European Parliament had veto powers over any deal struck.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to BBC Radio 4&#039;s Today programme, Mr Verhofstadt said he had received more than 1,000 letters from UK citizens who did not want to lose their relationship with &quot;European civilisation&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &quot;All British citizens today have also EU citizenship. That means a number of things: the possibility to participate in the European elections, the freedom of travel without problem inside the union...<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We need to have an arrangement in which this arrangement can continue for those citizens who on an individual basis are requesting it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He now hopes to convince European leaders to agree on this. <\/p>\n<p>But Mr Verhofstadt also warned that the European Parliament will have veto powers to reject any deal brokered between the UK and the European Commission on Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Theresa May has said she wants to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty by the end of March, which would pave the way for Brexit negotiations.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-39228245 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media captionGuy Verhofstadt tells Today a special arrangement could be made for British citizens who wish to remain in the EU British citizens should be allowed to keep the benefits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}