08/07/2016 Politics Europe

including future trade deals, the state this EU nationals in the UK,

and the future of the EU. He's joined the Conservative MEP, Amjad

Bashir and the Labour MP Richard Corbyn.

Hello, welcome to Politics Europe, your regular guide to the top

On today's programme, the EU's trade Commissioner has

a surprise U-turn on a trade deal with Canada.

What does this mean in future trade deals, like that with Britain?

The status of EU nationals and UK nationals in Europe is set to play

With Britain heading to the exit door, will the EU respond

by pulling closer together, or handing power back

Goodbye to all this, what will MEPs miss about their monthly jaunts

to the European Parliament in

All that to come, and more next half-hour.

This week members of the European Parliament

at the meeting in Strasbourg for their regular session.

Our guide in the latest in Europe, in just 60 seconds.

The Dutch presidency of the EU came to an end,

The EU must regain confidence and fight growing populism

and nationalism in Europe said the Slovak Prime Minister.

The European Commission performing U-turn on the trading with Canada,

giving in to pressure from France and Germany,

agreeing that national parliaments should ratify the deal.

There's been a bigger rise in the number of migrants

MEPs agreeing to set up a border and coastguard force.

MEPs had sharp exchanges about the result of Britain's referendum.

EU president Jean-Claude Juncker mocked Boris Johnson

Patriots don't resign when things get difficult, they stay.

As for the outgoing Ukip leader who he says

he will stay on as an MEP until Britain leaves.

Conservative, Amjad Bashir, and Labour's Richard Corbett.

More now on that EU trade deal with Canada.

It has been concluded, but not yet ratified,

could have implications for other trade deals on the way.

It must be a worry, if this deal has to go

through all the parliaments, the hurdles are very high.

This is part of a trend, not a one-off decision.

Trade deals, if they are purely trade, they are EU

competence, the EU Parliament and Council of ministers fining them.

Increasingly trade goes into more things, common regulations,

You need every member country to ratify, with 28 member states,

The Canadian deal will have some trouble.

If the North Atlantic Free Trade deal with America as to be done,

If the North Atlantic Free Trade deal with America has to be done,

according to opinion polls, that will not get through

This demonstrates how difficult it is to do trade deals with the EU.

We will be able to conduct our own trade deals much faster and quicker.

If the EU cannot do trade deals with Canada, who can it?

What about our own trade deal with the EU?

If we are left outside the European single market,

every single British good with a tariff barrier,

passporting for the financial service sector would be gone.

That will become more difficult to obtain, leaving

the European Union, and negotiating that afterwards,

On the implications of what is going to happen with Canada,

is it now possible, when we eventually come to agree

the terms of Brexit, will that have to be agreed by 27

Our people, the British people have spoken loudly.

We have to start negotiating what the people want.

The new Prime Minister, she will invoke Article 50.

Doesn't the Lisbon Treaty specify the ratification process?

Could it be down to the national parliaments?

If the new Prime Minister manages to get trade incorporated

in the divorce settlement, that needs a qualified

If trade is left as a separate item, to be negotiated separately.

The likelihood is it could be classified as a mix

That means every national parliament.

Sticking with the version of the ball game.

One question arising from the deabate between

the next Prime Minister, what happens to EU nationals

Front runner for the Tory leadership,

Theresa May said she can only guarantee the status,

as long as British nationals living in EU countries have their status

According to the Office for National Statistics,

there are 2.9 million people from the EU residing here,

Does not include those coming on shorter stays.

Not all those are working, including families.

Polish nationals represent the largest group.

853,000, followed by Ireland and Romania.

According to information collected by the United Nations.

1.2 million UK citizens living in the rest of the European Union.

Lower than figures putting it at two million.

Figures ratified and supported by the House of Commons library.

The 27 countries, Spain has the most, 310,000 migrants

Are you surprised that Theresa May has made a status

I was on the Leave side of the debate.

I was asked questions during the run-up to the referendum,

I said in future we need to control immigration,

those people already here should be allowed to stay.

We have to take into account the 1.2 million of our own citizens

It would be a dereliction of duty to ignore that.

Either the 2.9 million EU nationals in this country are going to be

guaranteed their status, continued status for the foreseeable future,

or they are a bargaining chip in the negotiations

we have to take the whole thing together.

Our citizens have to have the right to remain.

Elderly people retiring at a vulnerable stage of their life.

They need assurance they can remain there.

EU nationals sound like a bargaining chip.

It would appear so from what was said.

Even more complicated than that, not just about residency rights.

EU law guarantees rights not to be discriminated

against on the grounds of nationality.

A Brit living in Spain, dying, what happens

Some EU countries prescribe that, you cannot do

Do you believe that we should guarantee the existing status of EU

Yes there are people working there, families, part of the

To imply it should be a bargaining chip, I don't see any

other EU country trying to do something to us.

Isn't it right, when we are talking about EU citizens being allowed

to stay there, which I agree they should, isn't it right we take

You are implying other countries would challenge those rights.

If we were doing the right thing by EU citizens, they

they will do the right thing by British citizens.

By putting it into the negotiations, you are saying, why

What is the likelihood, only 1.2 million spread over 27

countries, concentrated in Spain, France and Ireland.

That is not going to happen, they will continue

Would it not be a good position for Britain to take a higher moral

position, regardless what you do with our 1.2 million,

we don't believe you will do much, 3 million in Britain are safe.

Even if it was ten, our duty to look after those ten,

there are 300,000 Spain, going to retire.

We have to negotiate and they can remain.

They said you cannot negotiate unless you invoke article 50.

If you make this thing a bargaining chip,

they are in danger, if you do not, they are not in danger.

It is about looking after the rights of our people on the continent.

You have moved from guaranteeing nations they, too guaranteeing

they should be a bargaining chip after the campaign.

The situation, we have right to guarantee the rights of our

To do that you have to make the 3 million people living

We want to guarantee rights for our people on the continent,

That is not what Nigel Farage said, leading the campaign

or Leave campaigners, Iain Duncan Smith, Chris Grayling.

Nigel Farage was not part of the Leave campaign this I don't

The result of referendum has raised questions about the EU itself.

Now that Britain is going to leave, has Brexit damaged European project,

changed it, hauled it below the water line?

Will it be the trigger the EU needs to bring about closer union.

Big moments in EU history, commemorated at the European

This session, they have gone for a referendum theme.

Have a look, Big Ben, Brexit stamp, picture of

The talk in this place is what will Europe look like post-Brexit?

What direction do you want Europe to in now we have left?

The Dutch Prime Minister said the way forward was not big reforms,

just a more effective EU, which is how the right

We are strongly against treaty change, we need concrete answers

Stop the illegal migration flow, which we saw last month.

Find possibilities to find jobs for the young people,

If we deliver on these things, people are happy with Europe.

Socialist group not just handing out goody bags,

they are reviving plans by Martin Schultz,

the European Parliament president and his fellow left-wingers.

I heard from the quotes of those voting for Brexit,

I can elect a government, I can change a government

Why not do the same in Brussels, to elect a government,

which would be the commission, and have the power to have a nation

In the chamber, we saw even more extreme views.

And those really aren't. Europe needs to be reimagined. A new

approach, new vision should be give in to European citizens,

European citizens are not against Europe, they are against this

Europe. TRANSLATION: People want their sovereignty back, to cooperate

freely in the Europe of sovereign states. Your choice is simple, you

change radically or you die. TRANSLATION: Talk of whether the

commission macro Jean-Claude Juncker should be the seat. If Mr Cameron

resigns, I think Jean-Claude Juncker should resign also. You think he

should go, why? Because his impudence was one of the reasons the

UK leaves. Enter the Slovak Prime Minister, will chair a summit in

breathless laver where this will come to a head. I have heard so me

different plans for the future of the EU, there are one, three, some

people want business in usual. At the summit ( laver, how would you

choose which plan to use? TRANSLATION: More than 60% of our

citizens support the EU, we would lose that if we are too confident.

We active their expectations in mind. The whole house is not in

order, we have to address that. To cheer everyone up, a Northern Irish

MEP invited this band from Belfast to Strasberg. There are enormous

questions about who will call the tune of the EU charts its future

without the UK. Adam was one of the Fiddlers! We

have naturally concentrated on the divisions except has raised in the

country. It has created divisions on Europe. On two levels. Europe and

the EU was divided on what its negotiation position should be

towards us, and also divided on where Europe should go, between

those for further integration, and those for greater nation state

Corporation. Both divisions mirror each other. The French, the

Italians, the commission, more integration, the Eastern European

's, the council, on less integration, let's see if we can do

a deal with Britain. Do you broadly by that? To a degree. Remember the

bottom line, on integration or less integration. The basic rule book of

the EU is a set of treaties, which can only be changed to give more

powers, if every single country agrees. It can only move at the

speed of the least enthusiastic. On how to deal with Britain, I detect a

shift of need. Initial reaction was, OK, you decide to go, let's sort it

out quickly. Now there is a realisation they can only be

triggered by Britain giving the notification under Article 15, and

Britain needs time to work out what it wants, what alternative are we

negotiating for. We have no clarity, the League side gave a very

different vision, inside the single market, one outside, facing a tariff

barrier. So far unsuitable, but we have to choose one, and people might

say, that is not what I was told, and reopen the question. DEC quite a

debate for the future of the European Union. No appetite for

treaty trade. The East Europeans want to use Brexit, the group led by

polling, using it as a way to build up the position of the nation state.

They want to get rid of Jean-Claude Juncker is the president of the

commission. Angela Merkel made it clear he will not be doing the

negotiations with Britain, that will be a job for the Council and her.

Changes afoot. Yes, I don't buy the line that the member states never

controlled the European Union. Every fundamental decision needs every

national government to agree. Even when you need a qualified majority,

pretty hefty majority. The idea things can be decided with member

states being blissfully unaware. That was not my point. It was the

shifting balance of power taking place. Divisions between Paris and

Berlin. The irony is, Europe could now start moving in more of a

direction you wanted it to move in the first place, and we will not be

there. Europe is in a pickle. A good British expression. The people of

Europe want something similar to bus stop bring democracy closer to the

nation, make decisions for themselves. Jean-Claude Juncker and

the like once a federal state with more power concentrated in the

centre. That is why Europe is about to implode. We shall see whether it

does or not. Our guests of the day, like Britain's 73 MEPs are something

of an endangered species. They will be there for a while. They have a

right to keep their seats until the process of leaving the EU is

complete. When they finally signed off from their duties, what will

they missed. Here is our Adam again. The grand old cathedral proves the

first point, Strasbourg is very easy on the eye. Also an impressive show

every night during the summer. When I went last night, a breakdown after

30 seconds. The city is awash with bakeries, cosy bars, and Michelin

starred restaurants like this one where you can get the feel with

mushrooms for just 49 euros. MEPs do not spend a lot of time in the

centre of town, they are in the European quarter. Here, like a theme

park for Euro geeks. The Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe,

over their, the efficiency of the European Parliament. In here, you

will find the political stage on an epic scale. Parliament's the

debating chamber. Around 12 and a half times bigger than the House of

Commons chamber in Westminster. While you are speaking, your

beautifully honed words will be translated into 23 languages

simultaneously. Quite a convivial place, dotted with bars and

restaurants like this one. Very international. Great if you want to

discuss olive farming in Greece from a feminist perspective. All the

fiendishly complicated voting system that no one quite understands. One

thing no MEP will miss if the travel. Getting here is difficult. I

had to get the train to Paris, walk across the city to get another

train. Even harder if you are going to Scotland, Wales and Northern

Ireland. Goodbye, Strasbourg. The big question, what happened to

Adam after we leave the EU you? What is the role of the European

Parliament in the Article 50 process of ageing. It would have to improve

any agreement reached between Britain and the EU. The plan will be

until British MEPs staying until the vote. They are members until Britain

is a member up to and including that vote. I assume you'll want to stay.

To make sure, if you can, there is a majority to ratify whatever the

British government agrees? I would leave tomorrow, if it was possible.

You are absolutely right, the negotiations have to take place, you

had to ratify them, I will remain until that is done. Are they

treating you like second-class citizens? That is not the case,

there was a bit of apprehension. Some say if you are on your way out,

not so much your concern but we are voting on, only coming into force in

three years' time. As long as we make contributions when we need to

be on the committees, we need to cheer things. It is an ex-MEP

employable? If we are outside the European Union, we will still want

to influence it. Maybe Amjad Bashir could get a job as a lobbyist? Back

in Yorkshire. You want to be back in Yorkshire. You have plenty of time

to get your CV ready? Tips from Andrea Leadsom? Certainly not. I

will carry on working in Yorkshire for the party. Trying to get

membership from the blue-collar workers of Yorkshire, and the

communities. At least two years ago, at least. Depends how long Britain

takes to work out what it was to secure and trigger article 50. That

is what we will be covering. That is it for now, thanks to all my guests.

Hope to see you soon. Goodbye from Politics Europe.

Good afternoon, pretty mixed fortunes across the British Isles.

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