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Germany to UK: don’t enter trade talks before Brexit

“As orator of a German government, we am not going to decider who a British primary apportion binds talks with,” Steffen Seibert told reporters in Berlin.

But he stressed that “it is transparent that an EU member state can't reason shared talks on giveaway trade deals with non-EU states as prolonged as it stays a member of a EU”.

Britain voted in Jun to leave a EU, though has not rigourously started a routine to do so.

Berlin has regularly pronounced that it and other EU members would not start exit negotiations with London before it triggers a EU’s Article 50 routine to leave.

But May is underneath clever vigour during home to conclude what a post-Brexit universe would demeanour like, and one of her pivotal hurdles would be renegotiating Britain’s entrance to universe markets — an emanate that Brussels now undertakes on a behalf.

The British personality sought to use a arise of a G20 to plead giveaway trade deals with non-EU states, assembly Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to plead a probable agreement.

India, Mexico, South Korea and Singapore had signalled they would “welcome” talks on stealing trade barriers, she said.

Article source: http://www.thelocal.de/20160907/germany-warns-uk-not-to-enter-trade-talks-while-still-in-eu-brexit