The European Union is bracing for either a no-deal Brexit or another delay if Bo...
BRUSSELS/LONDON - The European Union is bracing for either a no-deal Brexit or another delay if Boris Johnson becomes Britain’s prime minister next week with a pledge to renegotiate a deal the bloc says it will not reopen.
Such is the concern about the likely impact on the $18.7 trillion EU economy that European capitals are ramping up pressure on Ireland to accelerate preparations for a no-deal exit that could roil financial markets and dislocate trade.“If they come and ask us to renegotiate the Brexit deal, we will say ‘Thanks, but no thanks’,” said an EU diplomat involved in what is now three years of talks since the 2016 referendum in which Britons voted 52%-48% to leave the bloc.
“The Irish government and the EU are really clear that we will not be changing the content of the backstop agreement,” Irish finance minister Paschal Donohoe said on Tuesday. But EU leaders want to move on from Brexit, and say much will depend on how Johnson — who has cast himself as Britain’s Brexiteer-in-chief — acts if he becomes premier.
“If that’s the attitude, there is nothing we can or we want to do,” said an official in Brussels briefed on the visit. “Why would we change anything? And especially for a Brexiteer.”“If the Brits really think we are so scared of a no-deal Brexit, they are being naive,” said another EU diplomat. Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, who last month said the EU was increasingly “hostile” to seeing the tortuous Brexit process drag on, last week advanced contingency plans for the border in a no-deal scenario.
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