The European Union plans to negotiate Britain’s withdrawal on the basis of the British government’s white paper on Brexit and will not focus on amendments passed by the British parliament, Ireland’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
“What we need to do is focus on the white paper that the British government has published and it is up to the British government then to get that through their parliamentary system or get a version of that when the negotiations conclude,” Simon Coveney told RTE radio. “That is the only way we can work.”
“If we get distracted by individual amendments to individual pieces of legislation - legislation that isn’t even fully passed yet, and isn’t even passed by the House of Lords yet - then I think we get dragged into an unnecessary debate that wastes a lot of time and energy,” he added.
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