国际英语资讯:EU to discuss crucial issues in complex Brexit talks_时事

国际英语资讯:EU to discuss crucial issues in complex Brexit talks

In reaction to the summit outcome, Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, said, "For Parliament, 'orderly withdrawal' means, above all, finding a quick solution to the problem of EU citizens resident in the UK and British citizens resident in the EU."

"There will be difficult moments. Unity will be our strength and our greatest asset. Our peoples (citizens) have placed their hopes in us. They are looking to us to defend their interests and to show that we are up to the task which we have been given,"Tajani said.

Tusk also commented, "We all want a close and strong future relationship with the UK. There's absolutely no question about it. But before discussing the future, we have to sort out our past. We will handle it with genuine care, but firmly. This is, I think, the only possible way to move forward."

Talks with Britain will now begin after British general election on June 8. The deadline for completing the negotiations is March 19 in 2019.

Crucial issues to be discussed now included what criteria they may use to judge whether the two sides have made "sufficient progress".

EU leaders may also talk about how to manage a transition, after Britain leaves in 2019, to a new relationship likely to take many more years to finalize.

Also contentious will be which countries scoop the prizes of hosting the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Banking Authority (EBA), the two EU agencies set to be moved from London.