Concessions to the Brexit Deal : For UK legal Advisor is the legal Situation unchanged

The UK's Prime Minister, Theresa May reaching Changes to the Brexit-the agreement does not dispel the concerns of the British attorney-General, Geoffrey Cox. According to a report released on Tuesday in London.

the legal adviser to The British government said on Tuesday that the EU recently issued assurances to the exit agreement would create the UK government not fundamentally changed the situation: Although the risk will be reduced, that the United Kingdom remain bound by the so-called Backstop in the Northern Ireland question "is not unlimited, and against his will," in a customs Union with the EU, through the representations "". The "legal risk" that Britain could not disembark without the consent of the EU from it, remains "unchanged". The UK have no legal means to the Backstop designated warranty clause for an open border between British Northern Ireland and the EU-terminate a member Ireland.

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Cox's legal assessment of the EU's decision-assurances has a short measure before the crucial vote in the British Parliament on the withdrawal agreement is of the highest importance. For May this is not good news. She hopes that on Monday reaching concessions from the EU could bring her in the evening, a majority in Parliament for their agreement. Plan to 29 the UK on. March of the EU to separate.

The deputies in the lower house are scheduled to vote at 20 o'clock (CET) for the second Time the Brussels Treaty negotiated package with the EU-exit of the country. The debate starts at 13.45. In January, the lower house had voted for deputies by a large majority against the termination agreement and the Prime Minister Theresa May to a historic defeat brought about.

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in Order to prevent a re-vote defeat in only two and a half weeks before the planned date of Brexit, was May have traveled on Monday evening to Strasbourg, and had the EU in a last-Minute assurances to exit the contract and a political Declaration on the future of relations.

Also wanted to provide you with a one-sided Declaration to the Brexit-hard-liners in their party is clear that Britain would not be bound in the worst case, permanently to the EU.

Juncker advertises again for approval

At the assurances it is all about the controversial catch-all solution for the prevention of border controls between the British province of Northern Ireland and the EU Ireland. Accordingly, the United Kingdom would remain in a customs Union with the EU, if after the expiry of a Transition period, no other agreement is made.

EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker called on Tuesday once again to the British house of Commons, the reworked Brexit Deal is now approved. "I said it last night: This was a second Chance, but there will be no third Chance," Juncker said in a debate in the European Parliament.

The German Minister of state for Europe Michael Roth called on the lower house, the compromise now. "It must now also be the time of the conclusion of the game," said the SPD-politician in an EU Meeting in Bucharest. Roth described the new agreement as "very far-reaching clarification of what we have negotiated a long time ago". For the EU, the Central points remain. "The divorce agreement, the divorce agreement is."

The Brexit-a Hardliner in the UK reject the so-called Backstop strictly. Are you afraid to remain for the long term, the EU is bound.

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According to the skeptical evaluation of attorney General Cox is now questionable whether the concessions made by the EU can convince the Brexit-hard-liners in Mays conservative party and the members of the Northern Irish DUP. Both had voted in January against the Brexit Treaty. The pound, which had risen after may's agreement with the EU, slipped after the release of the legal opinion. (Reuters, AFP, dpa)