'No deal yet' in Brexit talks with Cameron: EU's Tusk
Source: AFP
London (AFP) - No deal was reached between British Prime Minister David Cameron and European Union president Donald Tusk Sunday in talks aimed at pressing the UK's case for curbing the benefits European Union migrants can claim.
The talks would continue for another "crucial" 24 hours, Tusk announced.
"No deal yet. Intensive work in next 24 crucial," Tusk wrote on Twitter. Tusk has "agreed to another 24 hours of talks" before publishing a draft of an agreement, Cameron wrote on the site.
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Donald Tusk has walked out of crunch talks with David Cameron on Britain's future in Europe less than two hours after arriving in Downing Street.
As he left Number 10, the European Council President told Sky News there was "no deal".
His early exit marks a stark contrast to remarks he made entering the building, when he said he was hopeful of a deal.
It throws the Prime Minister's hopes of holding a referendum on EU membership this summer into serious doubt.
Sky's Chief Political Correspondent Jon Craig, in Downing Street, said: "Donald Tusk has rather dramatically left here after less than two hours and told Sky News 'no deal'.
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pampango
(24,692 posts)Britain's trade unions are close to joining the push to keep the country in the European Union, bringing grass-roots muscle to a fight that has so far been dominated by big business and bankers, the head of the country's largest union group said. ... The TUC, which represents most unions, remains a political force with close ties to the opposition Labour Party which is broadly supportive of EU membership.
Unions will fight to stay in, emphasizing jobs and workers' rights, Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, told Reuters in an interview. "What we need to do is start putting rights and jobs center stage in the campaign debate," O'Grady said. "The bulk of the rights at work that matter to us originated in Europe."
The EU-mandated protections for workers would be at risk if Britain votes to leave the EU. Many lawmakers in Cameron's Conservative Party resent them as an embodiment of EU over-reach into the affairs of member states.
For the TUC, by contrast, they are sacrosanct. "A Brexit would have massive implications for jobs, rights, and the very fabric of the UK," O'Grady said, referring to a possible British exit. "If you take that floor away, workers will be worse off. It's a hell of a gamble for those, who want to leave Europe, to depend on particularly the government we have now to protect the rights on which so many people's working lives depend."
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-unions-idUSKCN0V517H
forest444
(5,902 posts)Britain's possession of active offshore money laundry/tax havens - Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man - within its borders and therefore the EU, has been a subject of contention for years.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)If "Brexit" actually happens it will unleash the greatest wave of capital flight the world has seen since the Asian financial crisis. It is that fucking insane.
Modern day London's prosperity is built on being an English speaking financial capital of Europe. Without the EU that goes away.