WARNING FOR BRUSSELS: UK can WALK AWAY if you refuse to budge over Brexit, says expert
THERESA May should make it clear to EU leaders that she is prepared to walk away from Brexit negotiations if the rest of Europe fails to compromise on a sensible deal, the chief executive of a top Dutch company has said.
By NICK GUTTERIDGE
Express.co.uk
Mon, Jan 16, 2017
Johan Eliasch insisted that Brussels has much more to lose from a hard Brexit than the UK, and revealed that Angela Merkel once told him she wanted a “sensible solution” to the divorce proceedings.
The Swedish born businessman, who was a government special representative under Gordon Brown and runs the sportswear firm Head, blamed Jean-Claude Juncker for the EU’s current intransigence towards Britain.
But he predicted that in the end the overriding economic interests of member states will win out against “the petulance of eurocrats”, adding that the desire to punish Britain was largely confined to Brussels.
Mr Eliasch savaged the “vindictive talk” of pen-pushers in the Belgian capital, but said they will lose the “turf-war” for control over the Brexit talks after the French presidential election in May.
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