Brexit is bad and stupid, says European Commission president’s chief of staff
Brussels — The UK’s decision to leave the EU was "stupid" and only the will of the British people could stop it, Martin Selmayr, said the chief of staff to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. "Brexit is bad, and it’s a stupid decision," Selmayr said at a conference in Brussels on Monday. "The only people who can reverse it would be the British people and I am not a dreamer, I am a realist. Brexit will happen on March 29 2019." German official Selmayr, one of the most powerful people in the EU hierarchy, was speaking two days after the bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, was quoted by UK media as saying that British people need to be "educated" about the price they’ll pay for their decision. On Monday he clarified that he wanted to explain the EU to all nationalities. The UK and EU are embroiled in increasingly bad-tempered negotiations over the terms of Britain’s withdrawal. The British government is refusing to accept that it has financial obligations bey...
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