On his final day in the office, Britain's commissioner to the European Unio...
FILE PHOTO: European Commissioner for the Security Union Julian King holds a news conference at the EC headquarters in Brussels, Belgium October 30, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman
“I don’t regret it, this was always going to happen, this is the logical outworking of the referendum,” European Commissioner Julian King told Reuters amid cardboard boxes and Union Jack cushions waiting to be packed. With Britain set to leave the bloc on Jan. 31, London has declined to name a representative to the new European Commission, which takes office on Sunday under German conservative Ursula von der Leyen, helping to shape policies and trade deals for more than 500 million Europeans.
Asked if King, a former British ambassador to France, felt anything in common with the last British governor of Hong Kong, he said the frenzy of packing up at the Commission was more akin to the U.S evacuation at the end of the Vietnam War.
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