22-04-2017, 11:10
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 14,231
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Re: Brexit: Article 50 Has Been Triggered !
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
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That's the headline on the front page of The Times so the paper must be extremely confident of its facts.
Here's some extracts:
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The development threatens to embarrass Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, who after meeting Mr Trump’s advisers in January claimed that Britain would be “first in line” for a deal. A year ago Barack Obama warned that the UK would be at “the back of the queue” if it left the EU...
“Ten times Trump asked her if he could negotiate a trade deal with Germany. Every time she replied, ‘You can’t do a trade deal with Germany, only the EU’,” a senior German politician said. “On the eleventh refusal, Trump finally got the message, ‘Oh, we’ll do a deal with Europe then.’ ” Cecilia Malmström, the EU’s trade commissioner, will visit Washington next week for informal talks with Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary, and other Trump officials.
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