Minister Theresa: Trade Deal and Eu Institution

minister theresa: But they omitted any mention of the flash point issue of Gibraltar, unlike Tusk's guidelines which said that Spain should have the final say over whether any eventual trade deal applies to the British outcrop, according to The Japan Times. The Strasbourg-based parliament is the first EU institution to formalize its stance on the Brexit talks, passing the resolution by 516 votes for, 133 against and 50 abstentions. The parliament largely followed EU President Donald Tusk's draft guidelines issued last week after British Prime Minister Theresa May formally triggered the historic Brexit process. You will set the tone for Britain, the bloc's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier told MEPs just before the vote. It says that MEPs are prepared to accept a transitional deal to ease the effect of Britain's exit from the EU's single market in 2019, but that it should be limited to three years. The text insists that Britain must first make substantial progress on divorce terms the rights of 3 million EU citizens living in Britain, the exit bill and the fate of the border in Northern Ireland before striking a trade deal with the union. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.