Macron Fears EU COLLAPSE: Tense Brexit Talks Could Lead to ‘DIVISION in United Front’
- Macron Fears EU COLLAPSE: Tense Brexit Talks Could Lead to ‘DIVISION in United Front’
by LEIGH BOOBYER, https://www.express.co.uk/
EMMANUEL Macron has warned cracks in the European Union could be exposed during Brexit negotiations and admitted Europe’s “united front” over phase two of talks is under threat.
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The French President has become a key consensus-builder in the future of the EU, as the bloc takes on his plans to build a federal union. But the europhile cautioned EU leaders of the risk of splits emerging between member states over the on-coming Brexit negotiations.
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Speaking to The Telegraph, Mr Macron urged EU leaders not to fall for the “prisoner’s dilemma”, a notorious theoretical paradox in which two parties act out of individual self-interest – with both losing out. He added the same unified EU approach to getting a deal in the first phase of talks would be carried into the second phase as the EU seeks to agree a “common mandate” on UK-EU future relationship.
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