French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian predicted the two sides would"rip each other apart"French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian made clear at a conference in Munich that Brussels would defend its interests when talks begin next month.
Speaking at a security conference in Munich on Sunday, Mr Le Drian said it would be tough for the UK to achieve its aim of agreeing a free trade deal by the end of the year, with the two sides far apart on a range of issues. Mr Le Drian, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron, is the latest senior EU figure to warn that the negotiations will be difficult.
I didn’t realise the BBC knew France existed
With intransigent French insular posturing what more could you expect. Nothing new there.
Of course, who would expect 'respected pillars of society' to treat their counterparts with respect. With the mutual goal of a fair deal for both sides, of course that's asking too much. growup respect playfair
There's only one response to the frog's
😂😂 gd!
BBCPolitics Well that’s to be expected so what’s the news here BBC ?
The French 😂
They can be as bitter as they want in the end we can just walk away on 31/12/2020. Deal or no deal.angryfrench
France will be having its own Flexit soon enough, this is all academic. BBC folks, get your resume' CVs ready for employment elsewhere. I hear RT are looking for. Get them sent in. Don't leave it too late.
Which will be the first country to introduce comprehensive and internationally negotiated protectionist measures on the pathway to responsible trading? The country that does, wins. It's straight jacket time for the free markets (other measures also necessary).
The UK decided to exit the EU. Just get on with it and trust your Government to deliver 😄😄😄😄😄😄
The French can 'warn UK' all they like. We should not have to abide by any constraints for nearly 100% FTA any more than the EU requires Japan, Canada or South Korea to abide by EU Rules for their FTAs with the EU ...why would we, unless we become EU Vassal State!
Next thing you know, the Brits will be asking the Yanks to wipe their butts again!
Putin has been stoking the fires of nationalism around the world, as he can compete with isolated nations better than he can with he Western Alliance! Britain has done a stupid thing by exiting from a United Europe, and the other nations should not strew roses in their path.
BBCPolitics Bring it on, if we are serious about climate change, why worry, in leaving the EU, we should aim to import less and maybe focus more on buying British, and try to source your food locally and seasonally 🤔
I prefer New World wines.
Bring it on Frogs.
BBCPolitics The eating of cheese is so very much like the surrendering of a monkey n’est pas?
BBCPolitics This bombastic frog will probably be out of a job soon.
Why can't we implement a clear provenance law to all goods imported. That way, the decisions about actually buying can rest with the British public, giving them the 'final say' in how we fare in the brave new world of Brexit. This really would be democracy in action.....
Don’t negotiate with these idiots. Go WTO. Europe is falling apart, riots in Paris, Our fish, our beef,our lamb. I’m backing Britain.
No shit..! Didn’t see this coming..! Have to be thankful to our new ‘working class tories’ though... they’re the ones who’ll get fuck all after ‘lending’ their vote to the party with one message.
They should start sorting their own country out first and leave us alone!!
It’s not like your economy is in great shape France.
Drama...
BBCPolitics No problem just tell them to get fucked and walk away.
That’s fine whatever France want to impose we can impose they need us as much of we need them
The EU are ramping up the pre negotiation rhetoric simply because the are petrified of losing the income and the potential income that has supported them. See what happens in the next few weeks when they have to share that loss in a new budget.
BBCPolitics
The BBC are full of shit
Too late the horse has bolted
France has no power to negotiate EU trade deals. That falls entirely to the European Commission negotiators. What they mean is their representatives will be as difficult as possible and hope that their passive follower member states will oblige. Again.
Their tiny cafe's in tiny villages with four waiters per tourist will soon be gone without the UKs money in the pot. They'll fight tooth and nail to make this the UKs problem.
BBCPolitics France is only one country in the EU, I'M not sure the rest of europe would want to make sacrifices to satisfies Frances bloodymindness.
Just remembered why we voted leave.
Give em back to Germany
Open the door to little Britain, small minded wildly inaccurate historical xenophobia. Because that always helps! France is a leading member of the EU, we need that trade, it's always been our major trading partner, Europe before EEC was our main market, time to grow up, people
Not if there’s no deal
BBCPolitics Isn’t everything France talks about with regard to UK steeped in bitterness
Pure Gallic bluster. Here’s a simple illustration as to why Europe will strike a deal.
These French have short memories
BBCPolitics Is this really from the country whose President was saying just a couple of weeks ago what great friends we are and will always be? Puzzling...
Oh No not the French 😫
Largest and nearest trading partner treated differently to distant minor trading partners! EU will protect and prioritise competitive advantage of member states Win for EU is UK businesses relocating to the EU, hanging us out to dry Was always how it would pan out.
Cheese 🧀 eating surrender monkeys 🐒
BBCPolitics What does it mean not to have a trade deal? EU consumers can still buy our goods but with tariffs & vice versa.We will still have agreements for travel & pet travel, security etc. We can reduce corporation tax to attract businesses.Change our eating & buying habits. It’s fine.
BBCPolitics Is that because the french people who broker trade deals are on strike?
BBCPolitics Well, it was predicted. Brexit is just a word for waste
BBCPolitics The French never learn. They have far more to lose than Britain, hence le panic!
BBCPolitics Good
BBCPolitics All we want is the same sort of trade agreement as Canada and Japan. If the EU will not agree to it we walk away. There will be no brutal negotiations
Bring it on
France have enough problems of their own at the moment.
BBC still peddling project fear!!!
Explain that to all the auto workers in Germany France Spain Italy Poland Austria Portugal Czech Republic Slovakia who's products come to the uk
France 😂
buybritish
No deal then 🤔
Is the BBC still getting EU back handers I wonder?
It will be the EU which rips itself apart, most EU goods pass through Dover which if given freeport status means that goods can pass through the port tariff free and any applicable duties/taxes can be imposed further along the road which will keep port traffic moving !
France now runs the EU? WTA rules will suffice. They can talk later. The EU are more interested in stopping other countries following than any constructive talks. It won't work as people will rebel. Just look at France just now. Then French farmers will have a field day shortly.
The French are talking tough for their home audience and because they want to continue plundering British waters of its fish. They fear that their fishing industry will be destroyed very much in the same manner as the EU/EEC destroyed the British fishing industry.
Good to see they’re open minded and professional about the whole thing
No surprises there then. Posturing on both sides. It'll make for a spew of Twitter fodder for months to come.
But they need us more than we need.. Oh.
If France wants are fish they can buy them from us we cant just go there and take there grapes and make are own champagne or wine we buy it from them we must stand our ground and keep are seas as are land ours & any country that disagrees that no one is to come take what is ours
Does a 12 yo write your headlines?
Threats were always going to happen, theyve threatened us since 2016 vote, just leave on WTO terms that'll stop their bullying
Well, thank god that France is on fire most weekends because macron’s own people gate him.
Dear Mr Macron & co - u force yr orders on your own people but stop doing it to us. Riots hv yr street burning, police attack firemen, unemployment high, pensions deminished - now u risk loosing jobs our custom give but U cant choose other trade partners freely - we can.
BBC - Brexit: France warns UK of bitter trade negotiations. Where’s this ‘oven ready deal’ that you told us about? Where’s this deal that will be ‘the easiest in human history’? You reported it with such confidence, how come it’s not true?
Bring it on .... it works both ways!
No deal all the way.
Leave it out! When BoJo and Cummings walk in to the meeting, it'll be like the Treaty of Versailles all over again. We got this! BrexitMeansBrexit GetItDone 🦁🏴 We hold ALL the cards!
France the one country in Europe the UK has never needed.
France warns.. 'who the fuk is that guy!'
Well we will spend our 90 billion trade deficit somewhere else No biggie
So the full 'Brexit Deal' isn't actually finished? I mean, with trade negotiations still to start, presumably the UK will have to compromise further. And these compromises will be in negotiations behind doors, correct? Hmmm. Tough to know what you were voting on in 2016, maybe.
LoL like France matters.
France is an irrelevance.
It’s ok, Boris said he has an oven ready deal and Liam Fox has 40 deals ready to go. Boris said we hold all the cards and they need us more than we need them. Nothing to worry about, right?! Right?!?!?!
Where are all the immediate deals we were promised by LiamFox ?
Good, we have been sporting for a fight for a long time, bring it on.
2035 headline: The UK for the second time in the last 100 years has freed the French people of their German overlords.
France doesn't run the EU and we don't own France anything
The BBC really is pathetic. It covers an old Frenchman rambling about the trade negotiations, it covers the lack of snow in the French Alps, but it fails to cover the strikes, the protests and the barbaric police brutality happening across France on a regular basis.
Oh la la.......
Was expecting
It's not really a 'warning', is it? It's an observation, & I'm not sure many people doubt it. But then again, David Davis predicted that the WA would be the 'row of the summer', & Boris ended up caving in & giving the EU everything they wanted, so you never know.
Thanks Obama
But Johnson said he had a great deal all 'oven-ready' to go. Looks like that was a crock of bullshit then...
Brexit will bring a lot of tears to the English, prepare English Bolsonarists !! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂
Scaremongering, trying to get the upper hand before we even get going. Remember how they said no changes to the WA.... then they changed it.
“France warns U.K.“ 😂do me a favour. France & the Eu will pretty much do as the U.k tells them or we will cripple them! There on the ropes & they know it & another thing where is all these idiots that said were finished the day we leave the Eu 🤷♂️ idiots remoaners
Those who thought this was gonna be easy, which planet have they been on? The easy part was to leave. Now starts the difficult part. The Canada deal, which the UK is a signatory to, took 7 years to sign.
Need to walk away on wto terms
'France Warns' - Just like they warned Germany in 1940?
Lol France as if anyone cares
This kind of relationship could get difficult for the Brit immigrants living abroad
Since when did France speak for the EU? Have they left also!? French can go s*ck .....
And still they got Brexit done anyways
UK have taken back their country and there is no way we letting it go again! Never under estimate when a country comes together! Onwards and upwards x
France needs to sort its own issues out
What happened to they need us more than we need them?
Who would have thought otherwise? Oh
France is endlessly ‘warning ‘ UK
I am so fed up of these countries using bullying strong arm tactics, they're like a petulant child kicking off because they didn't get what they wanted. I know a lot of people want to leave & stay, but now it's done! Move out of the way 'blockers' the UK is moving forwards!
😂😂😂
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