Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May will try Thursday to convince European leaders she can still push through Brexit despite being badly weakened by an election bet that turned sour.
British Prime Minister Theresa May is due to praise the good atmosphere at Monday's Brexit talks, and explain how to protect the rights of citizens hit by Britain's departure.
Quoting John Lennon, he said that when people asked him if he thought there was any possibility of the United Kingdom remaining a member, he replied: "The European Union was built on dreams that seemed impossible to achieve. So, who knows? You may say I'm a dreamer, but I am not the only one".
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel immediately counted himself out.
The EU wants all rights now enjoyed by EU nationals in the United Kingdom, and British nationals on the continent and in Ireland, to be protected in perpetuity, as long as they arrived in their adopted homes before Britain leaves the bloc at midnight Brussels time on 29 March 2019.
Having called a snap election in the hope of securing an increased majority to deliver Brexit in a "strong and stable" way, Mrs May acknowledged that the outcome was "not the one I hoped for". Last week, one diplomat said May had tried to "hijack" the summit taking place on Thursday and Friday by drawing other leaders into wider discussions on Brexit.
Already today Leo Varadkar has met with president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier. "We need to bring back to Britain control of our laws and control of our borders", he said.
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Populist, Euroskeptic politicians in Austria, the Netherlands and France failed to make the headway they had hoped for in recent elections, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel is widely expected to win again in elections this autumn.
"And I would like to say very clearly that for me the shaping of the future of the 27 member states has priority to the question of negotiations with Great Britain about the exit".
Downing Street declined to reveal details of the proposals on citizens' rights, but Mr Johnson said: "What the Prime Minister will be able to do on Thursday is set out, as she has tried actually to do several times, her instinct to be generous about the 3.2 million European Union citizens who are living here and hoping that there will be reciprocal, corresponding generosity towards the one million United Kingdom nationals in the rest of the EU".
Germany's Europe minister, Michael Roth, said in Luxembourg that the opening of the negotiations had shown British leaders still needed a "reality check" on what they could achieve.
When May officially triggered the two-year unraveling process in March, she forced the European Union to realize it was losing one of its biggest members and a global player. "It's a project, an ambition".
"Europe is not, to my mind, just an idea".
Shortly before it begins he'll talk to EU Council president Donald Tusk. European Union leaders are gathering for a two day summit to weigh measures in which to tackle terrorism and migration and to create closer defense ties. They also agreed to jointly develop or purchase military equipment like drones.
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