{"id":20556,"date":"2016-12-09T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20556"},"modified":"2016-12-09T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T10:00:21","slug":"associate-eu-citizenship-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20556","title":{"rendered":"Associate EU Citizenship – Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

An update from Charles Goerens, following the previous communication on this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Dear Madam or Sir,<\/p>\n

Yesterday I decided together with Guy Verhofstadt to withdraw my amendment on Associate EU Citizenship. We realised that this has become a very important issue that cannot await treaty change – as was my intention when I first tabled my amendment – since this might take years.<\/p>\n

Yesterday evening, the House of Commons decided by a majority of almost 400 to support Theresa May\u2019s plan to trigger article 50 by the end of March 2017. Hence the prospect that Article 50 will be invoked has become very real indeed.<\/p>\n

The European Parliament will define its position on the Brexit agreement through a resolution during spring 2017. This seems to be the best opportunity to give Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt the possibility to enforce the Associate EU Citizenship.<\/p>\n

I recognise this might come as a surprise to many of you, but please understand that the abovementioned procedure makes it much more likely for the Associate EU Citizenship to succeed than through an amendment.<\/p>\n

Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n

Charles Goerens<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An update from Charles Goerens, following the previous communication on this: Dear Madam or Sir, Yesterday I decided together with Guy Verhofstadt to withdraw my amendment on Associate EU Citizenship. We realised that this has become a very important issue that cannot await treaty change – as was my intention when I first tabled my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[98,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brexit","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t