Theresa May triggers Article 50 with warning over security as EU leaders rule out key Brexit demand

The Telegraph ^ | March 29, 2017 | Laura Hughes, Kate McCann, and Gordon Rayner

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Theresa May’s Brexit negotiations got off to a bruising start as she threatened to withdraw cooperation on security and Europe’s heavyweights flatly rejected one of her key demands.

The Prime Minister started her day of history by talking of a “deep and special partnership” with post-Brexit Europe, but within hours she and the EU’s most powerful leaders were trading blows.

Mrs. May invoked the dark days of the Cold War as she warned the EU its “fragile” security would be “weakened” if it failed to reach a deal with Britain.

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The Brexit negotiations are likely to be rough. The EU wants to make the Brits pay for declaring their independence from Brussels oversight.

[McGavin999]

Europe really doesn’t want to start down that road

[Hugh the Scot]

Without the UK there really isn’t an EU...

[Salvavida]

For the life of me, I don't get why there are negotiations. Just leave and declare any previous arrangement null and void.

Having nukes means never having to say you're sorry.

[BJ1]

I have a feeling France thinks the EU is really led by France and Germany.

I think the Germans think they are in charge of the whole shebang.

I read that France recently surpasses Britain’s economy. Toss in a strong change that Scotland will leave the UK to join the Euro and the exit of England/Wales/Northern Ireland isn’t really that big of a deal if you think about it.

[maro]

I disagree. “EU” is Esperanto for 4th Reich.

[aspasia]

It’s not the Danes! Danish minister was recently adamant about not forking over any extra cash to compensate for Brexit.

[KC_Lion]

Wow Ping!

[Psalm 144]

“EU” is Esperanto for 4th Reich.

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Yes it is. It is a hostile, anti-freedom imperium, and the greatest threat to Western civilization since the Soviet Union. It’s weapons are dissimulation, economic suffocation and soft genocide.

EU delenda est.

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Danish minister was recently adamant about not forking over any extra cash to compensate for Brexit.

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Lol! Danes were subsidized by Britain. Now they are not subsidized, and they refuse to pay more. They are just more NATO grifters. All of them are. Each and every one is the kind of foreign entanglement that Geo. Washington warned against. He was right. Wee Willy Kristol is wrong, along with all the other neocon muck.

[fortheDeclaration]

The French are next!

[odawg]

Anti-Brexit propaganda.

[Hugh the Scot]

So then the EU becomes the WWII axis? I think it’s a pretty big deal,especially if France exits as expected.

[Hugh the Scot]

That’s pretty much where I was going with it...