White House greets EU on 60th anniv of milestone treaties

May is due to send the notification under Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty to Brussels on Wednesday. We value the peace, friendships, relationships, rights, business and academic collaborations, economic prosperity and outward-looking attitude that European Union membership delivers.

May is expected to trigger Article 50 in the middle of next week, and she will launch an immediate follow up with the publication of a white paper on her Great Repeal Bill on Thursday.

“I was born towards the end of World War Two and the European Union, not through force, has guaranteed trust”, said Andrew Macmillan, a Scot who has lived in Italy since 1970.

While there is no desire to punish Britain for leaving the bloc, the European Union must deter other countries from following, the head of the EU’s executive arm told the BBC in an interview broadcast on Friday.

“At the same time, we are going to make the most of the opportunities that our departure presents – getting out into the world and doing business right across the globe”. “Sadly, this doesn’t seem to be top of the government’s priority list”. “It’s about people. I am strongly committed to preserve the rights of Europeans living in Britain and the British people living on the European continent”.

In an apparent swipe at his native Poland and at Hungary, which have faced criticism for violating democratic norms and interfering with the independence of the judiciary and press freedom, Mr Tusk said European unity was less about bureaucracy than about values. Will I need a visa? “I believe it is more an answer to the migrant crisis than anything else”.

Theresa May’s government will follow its initiation of the Brexit process this week by setting out how it’s going to bring thousands of European Union regulations under United Kingdom control. “I’m excited for a new future and for making the best of it!”

Today, he said, politicians are guided instead by fear and crises and fall prey to egotistical populism that “hems people in and prevents them from overcoming and looking beyond their own narrow vision”. They stress unity, which they say is the only way for the European Union to be able drive “global dynamics”.

Time-limited clauses would allow ministers to use secondary legislation to alter or remove European Union laws as they become United Kingdom laws – with any changes not subject to full debates and votes by MPs. It is not too soon to leave us unprepared for what will be lengthy and complex negotiations, or to unnecessarily draw out the process.

“So, one could posit a theory that integration, the binding together of these different countries has been beneficial to stability and peace in the region and that to take it away again will cause instability and could contribute to an environment in which war is more likely”.

A minute’s silence for the victims of last Wednesday’s attack came after organisers refused to call off the event, saying “we will not be intimidated. Everything else is speculation”.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, European Council President Donald Tusk and Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat (L to R) celebrate the signing of the “Declaration of Rome” during a ceremony at Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy, on March 25, 2017.