Brexit is a 'nightmare,' says Luxembourg prime minister

11:25, 17.09.2019

The Brexit process has turned into a “nightmare,” Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg said after holding talks with UK PM Boris Johnson.

Xavier Bettel said Johnson had failed to put forward any serious plans to allow a deal by 31 October. But Johnson, who canceled his press conference because of the noise from protesters, said “there’s been a lot of work” and “papers have been shared”. He urged the EU to make “movement” in its opposition to scrap the backstop.

Johnson said his joint press conference was canceled over fears the two leaders would have been “drowned out” by pro-EU protesters.

“I don’t think it would have been fair to the prime minister of Luxembourg,” he said, as reported by BBC. “I think there was clearly going to be a lot of noise and I think our points might have been drowned out.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49709430

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