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Britain is likely heading towards Brexit without a deal, but Hungary and Poland are more dangerous for the future of the EU, British newspapers write today.
The British press focuses on the Brexit options and the tensions caused by the behavior of Poland and Hungary, which has complicated the adoption of the next EU budget.
The Daily Mail writes that until last night it was tempting to think that the scathing effects of Boris Johnson’s dinner with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in Brussels, were fully staged. That this is part of a carefully choreographed diplomatic dance that allows each party to show its supporters that it has fought tooth and nail to win concessions. That, despite all the feverish intransigence, the couple will soon be waving a paper, which they both claim is a triumph of negotiations and compromises and that they have struck the best deal. That, in essence, a Brexit trade deal will be pulled out of a hat like a rabbit, BTA reports.
Boris and Úrsula will see each other again, collide side by side, smile in front of the cameras and jump: the Brexit agreement will be ready. But any prospect of something like that took a double hit last night. Ms Von der Leyen made the first shot by provocatively publishing the EU emergency plan and, receiving the ball in her court, Johnson returned to the restless rhetoric of Brexit without a deal.
The London-based newspaper The Guardian quoted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as saying that Brexit without a deal was “very likely” at this time. The publication notes what Johnson said he could not accept that the UK remained “locked in the orbit of the EU” and that the Conservatives are urging him to make a deal.
The diary also contains the Prime Minister’s words that he does not accept that the UK is treated as an EU twin, that he must follow the behavior of the other twin if he does not want to be punished, that is. be subject to customs duties.
The Guardian also emphasizes the Prime Minister’s statement that there is a high probability that a solution will be found that looks more like Australia’s relations with the EU than Canada’s relations with the community.
The Independent looks once again at Brexit and explains to its readers why this is happening. The newspaper notes that Brexit is a process, not a separate event. The publication recalls that for four years Brexit has been devoted to headlines in major newspapers, angry rants in pubs and comments from taxi drivers, which will make your ears burn.
The newspaper concludes that to some extent Brexit has occurred, but to some extent not, because it has not developed in the correct way. The Independent writes that post-UK referendum analysis on EU membership has shown that immigration fears were the main driver for voters, as well as the suggestion that Britain’s contribution to the community could be used. for national health. Service.
Still, writes The Independent, the Theresa May and Johnson administrations have failed to guarantee that immigration will decrease or that more money will magically be made available for healthcare.
All of this, the post concludes, infuriated supporters to leave, and most conservative politicians realized they had won over voters by promising a clean and simple separation.
The Guardian published an analysis by Timothy Garton Ash titled “Europe is bad for losing Britain. Keeping Hungary and Poland could be worse.” The author begins his article with the words “Brexit means Brexit”, the mantra of former Prime Minister Theresa May, which deserves a place in philosophy textbooks as the most insignificant sentence containing the word “means”. Garton Ash notes that no matter how Britain and the EU are divided, it will be five or even ten years before the new ties between the British Isles and the mainland become clear. Until then, the EU may be a completely different community and the UK may not exist, the author predicts.
Garton Ash also points out that it is an illusion to believe that freed from the difficult Anglo consumer, the other EU members will be able to move smoothly towards further integration. A five-day marathon summit was needed this summer to agree on a recovery budget, with fierce opposition from the “savers of four” (Austria, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands), with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte playing Margaret. Thatcher.
What Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Morawiecki are now doing to their EU partners makes Thatcher look like a good Europhile, the author commented. The former British prime minister may have shouted “I want my money back”, but then Britain was at least a large net contributor to the European Union budget.
By contrast, Hungary and Poland are large net beneficiaries of the budget and the recovery fund.
In fact, what Hungarian and Polish leaders are saying to German and Dutch taxpayers is: we will not allow them to make these much-needed transfers to southern eurozone countries like Italy and Spain, both severely affected by COVID, if not ours. . Let us continue to use large amounts of your money without major restrictions.
If this shameless blackmail succeeds, the nationalist, populist and xenophobic ruling parties of Hungary and Poland will be able to do whatever they want, paying themselves handsomely for it and continuing to bite the German and Dutch hands that feed them.
Is there a rapid movement towards the Hungarian or Polish “exit”? Why would they be so stupid? Johnson can even say that he wants to have all the cake and eat from it while Orban does it in practice.
The immediate threat to the EU is not that Hungary and Poland will walk out the door after Great Britain, but that they will remain full members of the club and continue to violate its most important rules. It is difficult to say which is the greatest danger for the future of the EU: leaving Great Britain or staying in Hungary.
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