{"id":38618,"date":"2019-04-03T14:23:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T14:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38618"},"modified":"2019-04-03T14:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T14:23:30","slug":"theresa-may-to-hold-brexit-crisis-talks-with-opposition-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38618","title":{"rendered":"Theresa May to hold Brexit crisis talks with opposition leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"43\">\n<div readability=\"6\">\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<p>Guy Verhofstadt criticized the figures behind the Brexit project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"b2e512cf\">Guy Verhofstadt criticized the figures behind the Brexit project.<span><span>FREDERICK FLORIN\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>The European Parliament&#8217;s chief Brexit coordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, has delivered a damning indictment on Britain&#8217;s departure in Brussels &#8212; but says he hopes this week&#8217;s cross-party talks will pave a way forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can tell you, the sessions of the House of Commons have become more popular even than the matches in the Premier League in Europe,&#8221; Verhofstadt joked. &#8220;The only difference is, I can tell you it\u2019s always a draw there in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s hope that these cross-party negotiations that start today give us a solution in the coming days,&#8221; he went on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are open to change the Political Declaration to make that possible &#8212; a customs union, a free trade arrangement, a Common Market 2.0, maybe something else &#8212; we are open to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But he said that such a plan must be voted on in the House of Commons before Britain&#8217;s current departure date of April 12. &#8220;We need also a road map, so that we are sure that everything is implemented,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Verhofstadt then criticized some key architects of the Brexit project, warning that a long delay could see one of those figures take the reins. <\/p>\n<div class=\"b2310ea3\">\n<p><span>&#8220;We cannot risk giving the keys of the EU\u2019s future to a Boris Johnson, or a Michael Gove, the architects of this Brexit disaster,&#8221; he said. &#8220;A long extension would do exactly that.&#8221;<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>He concluded: &#8220;With Brexit, the people of Europe can now see for themselves that the projects of nationalists and populists always end in disaster, a mess in which everyone loses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Verhofstadt criticized the figures behind the Brexit project. Guy Verhofstadt criticized the figures behind the Brexit project.FREDERICK FLORIN\/AFP\/Getty Images The European Parliament&#8217;s chief Brexit coordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, has delivered a damning indictment on Britain&#8217;s departure in Brussels &#8212; but says he hopes this week&#8217;s cross-party talks will pave a way forward. &#8220;I can tell&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}