Azopardi says: What relationship do we want with the EU?

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 Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 09:45

GSD Leader Keith Azopardi said last night: “We have always been clear that if Brexit is inevitable we wish to see a relationship with the EU recalibrated on the basis of a retention of freedom of movement and single market access. We have been saying so for a long time and urging Government to put its case to achieve that. 

"Instead the Government have been ambivalent and not vigorously pursued achieving these objectives for three years. In part because they have been saying this debate is not for now. But the fact is that most of the debate that has been raging in the UK for months now is about the nature and quality of the kind of relationship the UK wants with the EU. We run the risk of missing the boat if our aspirations are not put strongly.

"The Prime Minister is also meeting the First Ministers of Wales and Scotland. What about Gibraltar’s quite unique and separate interests? The Government has already wasted a long time. It needs to make its voice heard by all sectors of political opinion in the UK. We need to be positive and speak loudly about how we see our future and be specific about the relationship we want with the EU.”

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