“Old friends, new beginnings − building another future for the EU-UK partnership” 🇪🇺🇬🇧
− President Ursula @vonderleyen speaks at the London School of Economics.https://t.co/KWh3cOHFqF
— European Commission 🇪🇺 (@EU_Commission) January 8, 2020
This morning.
A conciliatory European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is in London for talks with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson where…
….The Prime Minister is expected to press home his desire to reach a free trade agreement with the EU by the end of December 2020, when the transition period is set to end…..
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Hope she can keep a straight face as borris lies to it..
Interesting piece on her year at the LSE in the late 70’s. Apparently her father sent her there to avoid potential kidnap by the Baader Meinhof gang.
Had a penchant for punk gigs and was a fan of Buzzcocks.
https://www.politico.eu/article/london-calling-again-for-european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen/
Thanks for that. Nice and honest about her student days in London – most politicians fear to share because of the ‘moral police’.
I wonder did she meet Bertie Ahern`when she was at the LSE?
Ursula von der Leyen was a pisspoor German defence minister and managed to wangle her way to the top job in much the same way as other crap national politicians progress up the EU ranks like our own risible Phil Hogan.
So Boris will have no problem charming the knickers off this particular frau.
His big general election win has softened the EU’s cough and they’re approaching negotiations in a conciliatory spirit.
Fortunately that curtain-haired slimeball Verhofstadt has kept his trap shut too since the election.
Marvellous stuff.
I dont think she’d be boris’s type somehow
“The truth is our partnership cannot and will not be the same as before and it cannot and will not be as close as before, because with every choice comes a consequence. With every decision comes a trade off. Without the freedom of movement of people you cannot have the free movement of capital and services. Without a level playing field on environment, labour, taxation and state aid, you cannot have the highest quality access to the world’s largest single market.The more divergence there is the more distant the partnership will be. Without an extension of the transition beyond 2020 you cannot expect to agree every single aspect of our new partnership. We will have to prioritise. The EU’s objectives in the negotiations are clear. We will work for solutions that uphold the integrity of the EU, its single market and its customs union. There can be no compromise on this.” said Von der Leyn showing just how much Britain’s Teaboy Taoiseach had charmed her knickers off.
Conciliatory indeed.
I’m not sure your predictions on the outcome of negotiations carry much weight these days old sport – not after the fool you made of yourself over the backstop.
Stick to selling copies of An Phoblacht from your barstool in The Flying Kneecap.
You found a single post where I said Sasamach wouldn’t happen yet Spoofer?
Maybe keep digging through all those posts where I said the customs border would be in the Irish Sea. You know, the thing that’s happening?