that's not very complimentary, is it, mr barnier? no, it's the truth. truth and ijust made this point a few seconds before in my previous answer. there are so many consequences — and serious consequences, of brexit — and underestimated and very badly explained. just let me recall that leaving the eu means leaving 600 international agreements, all the european policies. that it is very complex. and i think that the preparation wasn't at the right level. but you went on — "the current team — i.e., the british government — is not up to the challenges. and you went on to say in your book "i simply don't trust them." no, on a specific point, i lose my trust because of what the uk government tried to do against the protocol on ireland. because in ireland, what is at stake is not a question of goods or trade or technical matters — it's about peace, about the people. i remember clearly my meeting with a group of women in dungannon, south of londonderry, a few years ago. it was very moving. these women asked me — it was a private meeting — these women gave me a

do you share that view that immigration — out of control, says mr barnier — is weakening france's sensethe same, that we are all facing these very important waves of migrations. these very important waves of illegal migrations, in spain, in italy, in france, in many european countries. and we have to be very tough. we have to address this issue. we have to take very strong decisions and we have already taken very strong decisions with emmanuel macron. but this is only part of the issue. this is only a partial view of the situation. the current situation is that all european countries, especially france, because we are one of the oldest countries in the world, we have questions about our own identity. what do we want, what kind of country are we? what kind of role could we play in the future on the international stage? and we have, during the next presidential election, to address those issues, which means reinforcing the french economy, fighting against illegal migration, addressing the question of public finances to come back to sound public finances, being very strong on the question

i maros sefcovic playing the role of michel barnier?— michel barnier?t that imperative of a ticking clock we had so much that would the various deadlines and although it did end up shifting in many cases this time around, so we will not perhaps see the intense days of diplomacy and negotiating through the night, but there will be some very difficult and i am sure very fraught negotiations to come in the next few days and weeks.— fraught negotiations to come in the next few days and weeks. thank you so much. that was the view from westminster. let's speak to our ireland correspondent chris page. what is expected where you are? i suppose here at belfast port where checks have been in operation since january the ist of this year, this is where all political rhetoric, negotiations, it really hits reality. the protocol in northern ireland, the supposed, operates on two different levels for stop what is practical, one is political. when it comes to practical it is, it is businesses who have experienced the biggest degree of disruption he will be watching what

barnier may be of flanking him from the right.olster his stuff against a potential election defeat which would be humiliating. the problem is that he has got to the right to question the uk's ability to hold up to agreements at legally undertook. just a few short months ago. and he can talk about credibility on trial. he is using a pretext to justify his own domestic crisis which is a political crisis. it is not helpful to constantly do what you know, is often done especially by the right in this country. always picking fights, always picking things. there were things we said we agreed to and borisjohnson�*s government has reneged, has slipped, has become slippery on this. slippery on that. in a way i do agree that this is partly emmanuel macron plane was an electric but it also, the interview is a serious interview about can uk be trusted? and it's a important political question. we need to be seen as trustworthy. especially with the challenges coming now. part of it is electioneering, but what he is saying can't be dismissed in

maria, michel barnier, who a lot of people in brussels would say is a good european, interested in runninguote its legal sovereignty unless all could be subject to thejudgements of the european court ofjustice. is there now a growing consensus that actually the european authority has gone a bit too far, even in member countries that are at the heart of europe? jasmine is right that making it possible for 27 different nation states to work together is an absolutely utopian project, but i think what we are seeing now is the tension between those two ideas of europe. europe as a capitalist club or social europe. the french issue and polish issue and hungarian issue are extremely important because they are a challenge directly to the idea of social europe. the polish government and hungarian government want to be able to run authoritarian governments. viktor orban has said he is leading an illiberal democracy, in poland women have fought very hard to regain the right to abortion and most polish people want to stay the eu. so the union has a very difficult challenge ahead which is how to keep p

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