'We don’t want a crisis!' Macron ally concedes 'hard' Brexit would DAMAGE French economy
AN Emmanuel Macron ally insisted a ‘hard’ Brexit deal would damage France and will be a “big crisis” no one wants.
Macron ally ADMITS no Brexit deal would damage BOTH sides
Alexandre Holroyd, of Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche! party said “bar a few exceptions” most people in both the UK and European Union thought a ‘hard’ Brexit would be bad for "both sides of the Channel”.
Speaking on a debate show on France 24, Mr Holroyd said negotiators wanted to avoid major damage.
Asked if France and Germany were driving too hard a bargain, the French politician replied a different approach was needed.
He said: “On both sides of the Channel, there is a recognition that a ‘hard’ Brexit will be bad for the economy and bad for citizens on both sides of the Channel.
Alexandre Holroyd said a 'hard' Brexit was not wanted on either side of the Channel
On both sides of the Channel, there is a recognition that a ‘hard’ Brexit will be bad for the economy
“I don’t think there’s any appetite to create, in any circumstance, a big crisis. We have lived through a couple of big crisis in Europe, in the European area, in the eurozone over the past ten years, there is no appetite to see that happening again.
“But what needs to happen now is progress on those negotiations to arrive to a deal which prevents that from happening.”
A Eurosceptic and leading conservative in France’s fractured The Republicans party, has raged at Brussels’ enlargement process saying it had “killed” the EU.
Laurent Wauquiez, whose tough stance on immigration has earned him the support of members of the French hard-right but enemies among more moderate right-wingers, is the undisputed favourite to win the party leadership next month.
In an interview yesterday he also blasted president Emmanuel Macron’s bid to united France behind his EU reforms, which support the bloc’s expansion.
He told French television channel France 3: “Us Republicans do not share the same European ambitions as president Emmanuel Macron, especially when it comes to the sensitive issue of European enlargement.
“Because we believe that accelerated enlargement is what killed the EU.”