Report on the Brexit requests protection to the emigrants in europe – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

All eu citizens living in the Uk at the time that the government confirm the output of the European Union should be able to stay in the country, advises the report of a “think tank”, drawn up by the elements involved in the debate about Brexit and also by the employers and the trade unions.

In the wake of the results of the referendum of June, this has been one of the major concerns for the roughly 2.8 million EU citizens that live there, including thousands of Portuguese emigrants. The study cited by The Guardian argues, however, that should be given permanent residence – with the possibility of bringing your family for a transitional period, those who manage to prove that you are there for at least five years in the country.

Launched by British Future, an organisation specialised in research on migration, the report has involved, among others, the leaders of the conservatives who are in Government, the party’s UKIP who led the campaign for Brexit and also of labor, whose member of parliament Gisela Stuart coordinated the project and mentioned in a radio programme of the BBC that the rights and the statutes of these persons should be “the priority of the government in the negotiations with the other member States”.

The first-minister Theresa May, who succeeded David Cameron, got the 7 of December the house of commons to pass a motion so that you can trigger by the end of March 2017 article 50.Of the Treaty of Lisbon, which triggers the formal process of exit from the EU. The thesis repeated by the Executive is that such a guarantee to the europeans that live on the island can only be given after equal conditions for the 1.2 million brits living in eu countries.

However, the coordinator of this study, quoted in the british press this Monday, 12 December, argues that London should “take the first step to demonstrate good will” and to “establish the tone of the negotiations”, recalling that “people are different from the trade”. “It would send a clear signal about the kind of country that the United Kingdom will be after Brexit, and about the relationship that we want with Europe,” said Stuart in a program of BBC Radio 4.

The 6 December, the leader of the team of the European Commission that negotiates the Brexit, Michel Barnier, has established the month of October 2018 as the deadline to close the agreement of divorce in the Uk. The ex-commissioner Barroso, who took over this folder two months ago, he pointed out that London the british should have only 18 months to negotiate, instead of the two-year period that had been initially indicated.

The economic consequences of Brexit are also scaring the financial directors to the Portuguese, as the Business reported at the beginning of this month. A survey conducted by Deloitte showed that, out of the Uk, Portuguese managers are even those that anticipate that a british exit from the EU will hurt your business.