16.01.2017, 14:45
|
 | Forum Legend | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Kt. Zürich
Posts: 9,829
Groaned at 434 Times in 375 Posts
Thanked 18,121 Times in 9,645 Posts
| |
| Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in
| Quote: | |  | | | Sure they can, to be activate upon clearance of any hurdles. But the message of support is the value in itself. This is about negotiations. | | | | | Kinda difficult to negotiate a trade deal when nobody knows what deal will be agreed between UK and the EU. | Quote: |  | | | "Nobody with any sense from China, the U.S., Brazil or wherever is going to engage with the UK other than a friendly drink in the bar until the UK has a regime with the EU," retired British trade negotiator Roderick Abbott told Reuters.
"That gives them the yardstick against which you negotiate," said Abbott, who during his more than 40-year career worked on trade for the British government, the European Commission and the World Trade Organization (WTO). | | | | | Source |