{"id":10955,"date":"2017-03-10T17:30:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/juncker-i-hope-post-brexit-uk-will-rejoin-eu\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T17:30:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:30:17","slug":"juncker-i-hope-post-brexit-uk-will-rejoin-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/juncker-i-hope-post-brexit-uk-will-rejoin-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Juncker: I hope post-Brexit UK will rejoin EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Media captionJean-Claude Juncker says he hopes &quot;the day will come when the British re-enter the boat&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said he hopes that the UK will rejoin the European Union at some point in future.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Juncker, the most senior official in Brussels, said he did not like Brexit because he wanted &quot;to be in the same boat as the British&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The day will come when the British will re-enter the boat, I hope,&quot; he said following an EU summit.<\/p>\n<p>Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage said: &quot;The ship will have sunk by then.&quot;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kuenssberg: Thatcher to inspire &#039;divorce bill&#039; talks?<\/li>\n<li>Poland vows to stop multi-speed EU<\/li>\n<li>UK should reject any &#039;Brexit cash bill&#039;<\/li>\n<li>Britons should keep EU rights post-Brexit <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The UK is expected to trigger the formal Brexit process this month, beginning a two-year negotiation process of withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel said if the UK invoked Article 50 next week, an extraordinary meeting of the other 27 EU states would be held on 6 April.  <\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are well prepared and we shall wait with interest,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Theresa May attended the Brussels meeting on Thursday, but left early as the remaining 27 members stayed on to discuss the future of the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>She told reporters before leaving:  &quot;At this summit we&#039;ve shown once again how Britain will continue to play a leading role in Europe long after we have left the EU&quot; - citing the examples of security cooperation and hosting a summit for the Western Balkans.<\/p>\n<p>European Council President Donald Tusk said the EU would be ready to respond within two days of Mrs May triggering Brexit: &quot;We are well prepared for the whole procedure and I have no doubt that we will be ready in 48 hours.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the European Parliament&#039;s chief Brexit negotiator, Guy Verhofstadt has said he would like a &quot;special arrangement&quot; for UK citizens who want to continue their relationship with the EU, so they can continue to keep some rights, such as freedom to travel.<\/p>\n<p>The UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the EU in last year&#039;s referendum.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-39230044 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media captionJean-Claude Juncker says he hopes &quot;the day will come when the British re-enter the boat&quot; European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said he hopes that the UK will rejoin<\/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-10955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955","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=10955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}