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PARIS, June 14 (APP/AFP) – French President Emmanuel
Macron said Tuesday the door was “always open” for Britain to remain in the EU even after Prime Minister Theresa May said Brexit talks would begin next week.
“Of course the door is always open as long as the negotiations on
Brexit have not finished,” Macron said in a press conference.
But he stressed that the British people had taken the sovereign
decision to leave the 28-member bloc in their referendum a year ago, adding that the start of talks was an important milestone.
“Once it (the Brexit process) has started we need to be collectively
clear that it’s more difficult to reverse course,” he said at the Elysee palace.
May stressed that she would stick to her timetable of starting Brexit
discussions next week in Brussels, saying the talks were “on course” despite
her domestic difficulties.
Her Conservative party lost its parliamentary majority in a bungled
snap election last week which some observers suggested might lead May to abandon her plans for a so-called “hard Brexit”.
“I think there’s a unity of purpose among people in the UK. It’s a
unity of purpose having voted to leave the EU that their government gets on with that and makes a success of it,” she said.