{"id":147027,"date":"2018-06-27T06:02:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T06:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/brexit-businesses-and-unions-call-for-urgency\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T06:02:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T06:02:32","slug":"brexit-businesses-and-unions-call-for-urgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/brexit-businesses-and-unions-call-for-urgency\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: Businesses and unions call for urgency"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flags\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/5E1B\/production\/_102219042_flags.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      The joint statement asks for &quot;jobs, rights and livelihoods&quot; to be put first                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Business and union leaders from across the UK and Europe have joined together to plead for &quot;pace and urgency&quot; in Brexit negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The CBI and the TUC along with their European counterparts are calling on the UK government and the European Union to make &quot;measureable progress&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>UK and EU leaders will attend a European Council meeting this week.<\/p>\n<p>The groups say the UK and the EU must &quot;put economic interests and people&#039;s jobs, rights and livelihoods first&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The CBI, BusinessEurope, the TUC and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) collectively represent 45 million workers and 20 million employers across the EU.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement, they said: &quot;We are calling on the UK government and the EU to inject pace and urgency in the negotiations, bringing about measurable progress, in particular a backstop arrangement to avoid a hard border in Ireland.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brexit: All you need to know<\/li>\n<li>Business Brexit &#039;threats&#039; wrong says Hunt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&quot;Decisions will be needed in June and October to finalise the withdrawal agreement and the transitional arrangement, and put economic interests and people&#039;s jobs, rights and livelihoods first.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      CBI director-general Carolyn Fairbairn                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>UK Prime Minister Theresa May will attend the European Council meeting on 28-29 June. However, she will be excluded from a gathering of the other 27 EU nations where chief negotiator Michel Barnier will provide on update on Brexit talks.<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn Fairbairn and Markus Beyrer, the director-generals of the CBI and BusinessEurope respectively, as well as Luca Visentini and Frances O&#039;Grady, the general secretaries of the ETUC and the TUC, met earlier this month in London to discuss Brexit. <\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the European Council meeting they said: &quot;The UK government and the EU will need to agree on all aspects of regulatory alignment, which is of the utmost importance, without jeopardising the integrity of the single market.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the UK government said: &quot;We absolutely agree. That&#039;s why we have put forward workable proposals to the EU on a range of areas from the backstop to security, and the White Paper - which will be published after June Council - will continue to drive this process forward. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are confident that we can make progress if both the EU and UK engage constructively.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption The joint statement asks for &quot;jobs, rights and livelihoods&quot; to be put first Business and union leaders from across the UK and Europe have joined<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147027","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=147027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}