so, we began with not wanting to leave the european union, we campaigned to remain in the european unionnationalistsand we think it's the intersts of our country to remain in the eu, but we lost the referendum and we're democrats, and so we do what the country tells us. our instructions are that we leave the european union, and our approach would have been completely different. we would have gone to our european friends and said, we've got a problem, we have to leave, you have a problem, we're leaving, let's try and sort something out together. we're not putting down ridiculous red lines, we're not sweeping things off the table, let's just talk. but we do need to say we need to leave, we want to look after our economy, we can't pretend that the referendum was not about people's concerns of migration. let's start with the big picture. we need to leave, you've just said, so in your mind, no question — there will absolutely not be another referendum, there will not be a reversal of this decision to leave? no. we go into this in good faith. we had a referendum, we were given our instructions

we believe it's important for the european union and important for the ukkeck in or out of the european union. we continue to encourage the single market during the time we are member of the european union. but i believe it's important once we leave the eu that that single digital market has indeed been created and we will form a new partnership and relationship with it. >> see bridge. >> can i commend the prime minister's statement and the progress she has made. mr. speaker as we've heard, representatives of british businesses, businesses of all size from all sectors have written today to the government warning of the consequences of no deal and relying on world trade organization rules. they said the government should give certainty to business by immediately ruling this option out under any circumstances. will the prime minister agree to listen to british businesses? and would she even go so far today as finally to rule out no deal? >> here here. >> can i say to my right honorable friend that we have of course been engaging with business. we have been listening to business. i was ver

on the financial settlement, clearly some wasn't the european union need to stop briefing out astronomical and unacceptable numbers. but will the prime minister -- but will the prime minister -- will the prime minister confirm reports that she privately assured european leaders that brian would pay more than the offer she previously made in ore florence speech? if this is the case, is she confident this would past the red line set out by the foreign secretary other few weeks ago? mr. speaker, the prime minister hails the progress made so far in these negotiations. the biggest bat the prime minister faces isn't so much with the 27 european states described as the enemy of letter battle to bring together the warring factions of her own cabinet and party. and the prime minister is too weak to do anything about it. the outcome, a crashing out with no deal, to become a deregulated tax haven, to dream of a powerful faction of her back benches and her front benches would be a nightmare for people's jobs and living standards. labor's message is different and clear. only labor can negotiate a brexi

alone i mean if you take a look as for the past especially two years what are the bad boys in the european union you can name that better let's let's talk serious the central european country is eventually more than ten years after their accession to the european union has come to their. full fledged perception of how they believe the opinion should be working and i believe this is something new there are some european powers divest the member states have to cope with and that is central european countries for an obvious reason that is historical source of logical economic reasons a legacy we carry here have a say and different say about how we think about the opinion and you should better listen listen to it it's not against europe it's a different slightly different vision actually well yes or listen to it yet what i mean the west is turning down what you stand for your illiberal democracy in april even the center right grouping in the european parliament the b.b.c. which includes your party for this war knew that it would not accept any basic freedoms being restricted or the little rule of la

so you really it's not in his interest to go against the european union how do you make the changes that are sort of governor of the election ride here the f.b.i. director of the new york's university's academic center in brown thank you very much for that analysis. here what you need to have a new is coming up ahead confidence use cash to do is a form of protest to banks are moving their headquarters to other villages of spain . then visiting from all businesses will have that story and other news from the want of business to stay that you've got their. own interests are on the rise when required and. i am taking them to more straight to highlight different shades of nationalism and to find out what does nation me to you. to show you so or join the conversation here on to dublin you on twitter i don't facebook. crime fighters the new season of radio crime thrillers begins. in. motion domestic violence cyber crime and human trafficking for investigative cases that will keep you on your toes crime fighters series at the base idea ever so every young person needs to listen to crime fighter

the very anything good actually for the future of the european continent or especially for the european union if you take a look at the their predecessors impounding fathers if you like of european politicians the firmly believe that europe should be based on christianity if not religious proper religious terms but certainly culturally and if you refer to way shift away from that it's going to cause very serious problems look looking around and looking at this is this look around the globe nobody's nobody's playing that game but there's a lot is there isn't that there's a disconnect you claiming to protect christian values that at the same time your authority is accused of illegal action including deny entry to arresting some really rejecting and returning refugees using disproportionate force of migrants and refugees as well as reportedly assaulting journalists and yet there you are standing up claiming as i said i see we do have here a serious linguistic problem as well because you stick to the word refugees and we stick to the reality that this is not a refugee right if you don't see the m

all the standoff in spain is just one of the challenges facing the european union even if the european union isn't talking much about staying tonight e.u. leaders are in brussels tonight for a two day summit topping the agenda are bricks and negotiations which are practically stole the two sides cannot seem to agree on the terms of the separation or british prime minister to resign may she called for renewed urgency in moving the breaks it talks along but european union leaders say britain is simply not providing enough concrete details so that those talks can move. on we've made some progress but not enough to start the second phase of negotiations by the father to begin also looking ahead to how we can tackle the challenges that we all share across europe that means a fool's continued cooperation cooperation which must be at the heart of the strong future partnership. well we want to go now to our brussels bureau chief max hoffman he is following that summit for us tonight good evening to you max i want to ask you about catalonia and we've been talking about this crisis in spain and

more and we've said that also with the refugee crisis where many of us felt the safe from the european union's behavior so many other feel very european are claiming maybe not want to take positions but to at least enforce dialogue somehow or to really ask the spanish government to be more open and flexible because even if you just want to go through the legal and very very very strict structure you do have a problem here that it's not going to be solved just by imposing or imposing a police force and because of. pendens that peter was just mentioning a conflict. as a conflict for the whole europe so i do think that somehow maybe the commission of the pond him and or someone in europe should do something about it and at least. a place where both parties could feel comfortable to speak and to trying to find common points for a solution because otherwise this is just going to go and get protracted and stay there for a long time michael let me head over to you are we are do you think the european leaders are looking at this we just showed the map it is everywhere this is will not be the last one

and the european union which would mean customs and non custom times barriers and that would be a that would have a tragic really tragic effect on the european economy among them the central europeans because because the u.k. is a very important trading partner and economic partner and investment partner for the central european countries that's why i say that they regret the decision because of huge economic and political loss how committed is to hunger is hungry to staying in the euro zone absent that it is up to the e.u. yes these are regarding you absolutely you know we have been members of the european union and reveal the members of the european union that's not the question no one raises this question. there is another concern that many particularly in the e.u. and to a lesser extent here in the u.s. have about the freedom of speech about the freedom of people to participate in civil society the recent back and forth over central european university number one is an agreement going to be worked out with new york state on the future of c e u yeah that's what we are working on and

media and the media of the european union have been the one blasting the russian government you know and the russian duma for introducing. the wall into the russian legislation well the russian the russian government never targeted media organizations based on that the war there were problems with organizations that morning at that elections or n.g.o.s geos and forces you know to mourn and to them in their only interest there were problems with companies that were accused of supporting supporting terrorist supporting. midterms but new york the single dime they did i really didn't really want to really get into the foreign agents acting united states foreign the russian equant is essentially a translation it's broadly the same thing here gentlemen we've talked a lot about russia gate no evidence for me it's laboring over it because why talk about something when there's no facts but i think what's really picture if i go to you here and what i think is in play is something much bigger and i think much more nefarious you use the alleged collusion you bring in the russians you bring in ou

countries that have been perhaps less tolerant and less deferential to the european union i dare say that. would not have come out and said that this was simply an internal matter and spoke quite passively quite weakly about the need for the liberation i think the reality is actually the opposite of was just being suggested in terms of why for what i think is going to have to be some agreement of actually giving catalonia more autonomy a little bit like we've seen in the past region a little bit like we've seen in. scotland and northern island but this idea of imposing rule and stripping catalonia of the of the rights that it does have at the moment is ludicrous magnum of one of the things that i find really disparate the way let me get to get everybody in here first one of the things i find bothersome is that it kind of echo a little bit what john laughlin had to say because of the. what happened on sunday and the use of force probably and i think we'd all agree kind of skewed the vote for the people that did vote in the votes that were counted i would have liked to have known and i

as such they wouldn't be allowed back in the european union as a year e.u. member state in their own right much in the way that say scotland would not be conceivably allowed back into the e.u. is a member state in its own right and in a way that that that interesting tension i think takes us into some of the broader debates about populism in the west and this particularly in the u.k. for example this very face the fence of the e.u. as a bastion of democracy respecting human rights and up holding public opinion when you look at some of the areas that that view has been strongest for example scotland pursuing independence but then to also be told by the european union well you're not going to be allowed back into the club for you to ever achieve that i think i think really. irritates only pendants movements. separately it's just simply spiteful is what it is it's not based on any kind of logic here you know john that you know this go back to catalonia i mean from what i know i been there but i've never lived there i mean it's not people that are oppressed it's

opposed european union recognized so. i think some plans just saying that things are in accordance with the rules is a way that would just breed illegitimacy even political system and can break it down and the direct rule that was imposed all through the good friday agreement. to. a greater level of animosity that was necessary between the irish and the british governments so i think i would go back. and looking at the canadian example where casey can. come up and said well ok so it's. not let me just let me jump in here let me let me let me hang on let me jump in here let me give you the last forty seconds on the first half of the program ok go ahead matthew before we go to the break while i just i just i just echo a few of those points peter i think that those points from out there were spot on i'd also add you know that when you look at the e.u.'s response as well the e.u. is incredibly anxious not only that for it was going to lead lead to a sort of contagion effect across europe but also with catalonia that cleaned u

so really lots and lots of questions obviously an extremely sensitive subject for the european union given the potential first of all of course we have just recently seen which was sort of a huge blow to the unity of the european union but now this latest development in catalonia seen as certainly quite a dangerous trend that could potentially spread throughout other places in europe of course if you remember a handful of places. you know in italy for one and a handful of other examples where this is an issue that could also heat so lots of questions very tense situation so certainly it's clear that the european union is going to be watching very closely what exactly happens in catalonia and spain next another interesting aspect to today's developments artie's analysts to see the church now bring us right up to date on the thank you. across the border in southern france the council on president has already been offered asylum. we were guests of president bush demand. and we decided to offer him and his family hospitality in case they were x.i.i. . well there is plenty of support for

thirty years ago it was created to stand up for the regions and local communities there was no european union thirty years ago and no i'm sitting here in strasbourg in its headquarters is a problem not only for the northern regions of italy but for all european countries it is the european union that imposes sanctions on russia crippling our agricultural sector and robbing italy of seven billion euro is a year today we advocate the unity of italy but with autonomy for the regions and federalism we do so who first and foremost defend ourselves against the onslaught of the e.u. and multinational corporations which are simply to annihilate us. what is it that i do not agree with when it comes to catalonia see many of those who are in favor of the independence of catalonia ones who remain in the european union they want to keep the euro and also the ones open their borders to migrants from north africa well this kind of independence independence with brussels in the driver's seat without cutting off the flow of migrants that decision would pose grave problems to they also wish for it so he'll als

if once you join the european union it's all set in. meant but we know it and we couldn't numerate on this program that there are a number of separate is issues all across the continent and they actually at the end of the cold war they started to take root and how do you deal with that because maybe how you deal with catalonia can set an example for others where it can be a win win situation instead of what we're seeing right now in catalonia which looks like a lose lose for everybody at this point go ahead matt. i think the problem with. with john about the legal position is that you only have a right to self-determination if you are an oppressed people and there's no other way out so from a technical legal point of view on they don't have a right to self-determination the problem is if i may say so there is an element of organized hypocrisy when we're talking about recognition of states in some cases countries at all part of a very dictatorial regime and they have a referendum somaliland had a referendum as brothers if you will be muc

something care where the brits were always very reluctant so this is something where the rest of the european union could go deeper in to better integrated union but to both is probably true and the same for a great great i think economically it's it will be a disaster for great britain because a lot of companies will move to the continent if we if we create a lot of tensions and problems we have to establish new bureaucracies controlling the environment the consumer protection the atomic security issues or do these trade issues very complicated areas it will not be easy for the brits on the other hand they have been a little bit more room to maneuver the day in the. we decided we'll have to decide are we now bit of a little bit. and i want to quote once again john claudine care who said recently that britain will have to pay for it leaving the european union sometimes it feels like brussels is being very hostile to brits because it wants to scare other members from following london's example where living so harsh on the question of the bill the so-called to exceed bill i mean the brits know quiet

he didn't care about the courts ruling he can how can such a country still be a member of the european union not accepting the decision of the supreme european court still being there no consequences no sanctions nothing happened well the nothing is not right first of all here you see the last of the constructing of the european union we have not thought and considered even that in particular hungry but also part of who were actually the breeding grounds for democracy for eastern europe in particular polland supported us with a round table in east germany wouldn't have a peaceful revolution if you would have had policy as a model this was once and i am now history now that's a start of the reality right and the reality is that it wasn't. structured into the situation that countries could cause so far out of that regard or this evening don't you did the evening didn't and don't. try to take a decision or you can try hungry there is not an official decision against well this iteration is the following that we have article seven there you can bring these countries into a more difficult situatio

are those kinds of commitments that we're hearing there from the european commission from the european union is that enough. good question well overall it's definitely on us to congratulate the european commission and everybody making the statement that i haven't made that statement today and tomorrow but still we need to be clear that until now many measures have just been put into action plans and they have just been made as voluntary commitments these awards and we need to see cho action and to have the new notions and experience has shown us that during the last two years lots of time has passed by with only a little action and a lot of words so we're looking forward to seeing those words being implemented into action quickly and to seeing some concrete plans also getting taken not only by policy makers but also taken up by corporates by big companies who have still very very much the tendency to. let's put it that the way to do some greenwashing i mean i do not want to piss on or some of the good commitments that came out of this conference but still projects tend to look at end of pipe

negotiations with the same new member states and i was really always very pushy for enlargement of the european union to give really does eastern european and central used in south or used to be european countries if perspective to be. in full fledged member of the union so if they have the impression they are not treated in a respectful and equal footing way then it makes me a little bit concerned that should not be the way they should think. maybe they have different feelings. engaged in love on the other hand we should think about our positions so maybe we should be much more open minded actually we're going to talk about how their views differ from the use of the core of central europe but if i'm just going to give you a little example you know there's been like this between east and the west in here up broke out recently it was a food scandal supposedly west exports or imports to the eastern europe food that's made of worst stuff that what is sold in the west why is there such approach that everything that goes to the east could be a quality lesser than whatever is. acceptable to be very frank o

from chatting with present i spoke with a couple of weeks ago the new european union have no intention of interfering in spanish affairs internal affairs i think they've now got the idea with the problems though taking part in spain that maybe is for a good idea of the actually key posts of internal affairs of the various countries because it's just a farce that many other countries in europe who have problems with the central administration spain doesn't govern itself anymore it's governed by the european union decisions are no longer made in britain they're made in brussels maybe the city is the european union has brought this to a head and it's not just the. problems with the basques either the front of the the flood walls in belgium various parts of europe there are problems people want to secede but because people don't want to be ruled by faceless bureaucracy in brussels they want to make their own decisions locally and then have a national government as well catch a loon years of the richest well the richer parts of spain so that they are that's why they're feeling very upset wa

friends related towards the european union and sort of integration and so mr bush was trying to speak to them and it seems that the succeeded but for him personally very strong and the european stance is not something that. would promote his business interests because his empire stretches from the czech republic to germany france so they're not relents and certain and it is not in his interest to create a deep divide between the czech republic and the european union so i fully expected that shortly after the elections he will start modifying he is european message so to speak and i wouldn't be surprised to be know of portrays himself assessment of the pros bro european politicians all right so what about the far right s b d know that putting received more than ten percent of the votes how big is the fear that you know this pot to could push an n t e u n anti immigrant policy into the mainstream. well i think that it could happen only if this fire to becomes part of the government qualification led by mr bob is sure he's on a movement but it is not very likely because there are some de

referendum in catalonia has caused a violent crisis in spain with potential wider consequences for the european union . where to go from here on how can the european community help well i asked the former head of the council of europe walter. stubborn kind of drive for independence has been met with a heavy spanish crackdown people fired out interested was kind of poor and measured stalwart in his hardline resolve how should the european union react to the crisis in a peaceful way i would be found after the clashes with passion in the region and an all time high and brussels pomerado as solution well to shrimp are welcome to the show it's good to have you on our program now you were at the helm of the council of europe and very vocal in your support for e.u. unity but at the moment the continent has its problems for instance in spain got to lonia has voted for independence while madrid says to referendum was illegal clashes between the spanish police and independence supporters left more than eight hundred people wounded and the region has now gone on strike so in your opinion what's next will one si