Brussels issues an ultimatum to Theresa May on Brexit. Margaritis Schinas spokesperson for the EU Commission, did not mince words, declaring that: "For the moment, no white smoke, we are ready to receive Prime Minister May at any time when they are ready". But the meetingit has to happen this week” and "our week includes Sunday," Schinas added.
The hands scroll. The British premier has 48 hours to impress a breakthrough in the negotiations and keep his chair in Downing Street. According to reports from the UK press, in the event that an agreement is not reached, the Government could jump as early as next week.
The BBC talks about “growing pressures” opposed to May within his coalition (where the rigid attitude of the Northern Irish unionists of the DUP weighs), but above all within his own party: divided between 'pragmatic' conservatives and "hard-core" Eurosceptics, and with both currents possessing numbers to make the government lack the majority.
The news from Brussels weighs on the GBP which, on the foreign exchange market, retreats against the dollar. The exchange rate fell 0,1% to 1,3377. The ftse100 on the other hand, it lost 0,2% to 7333.26 points.
