Damascus-Sana
Nearly half a century after its accession to the European Union, Britain will separate tonight from the union, to start the British a new phase described by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as "the beginning of a phase of renewal and change for the country."
And with the exit process, the British and Europeans generally live moments of apprehension, which will lead to the prospects of seceding from the framework and structures of the European Union and building the stage of Britain's trade relations with the European Union and other countries.
At midnight today, Britain will have passed a critical period in which it witnessed the worst cases of political division and polarization in its modern history, after the implementation of the Brexit Agreement was postponed three times, and after three and a half years, 52 percent of Britons voted in favor of secession from the European Union in a 2016 referendum. .
At the other end, some Europeans go to accuse their British counterparts of racism for insisting on secession, while the heads of European Union institutions agreed to describe the implementation of Brexit as the "new age" of the old continent, stressing that Britain will lose the gains of the European Union member state.
Statistics indicate that the population of the European Union will decline to about 446 million with the exit of 66 million from its population, while the bloc loses 5.5 percent of its land area.
In a joint message published by the President of the European Council Charles Michel, the Chairperson of the Commission Ursula von der Line and Parliament Speaker David Sassouli, in which they expressed their readiness to engage in a new partnership with the neighbors of the other bank of the English Channel, noting that Britain will remain part of Europe despite the absence of its membership within the European Union While the heads of European institutions promised to contain many of the problems that will be caused by the implementation of Brexit through cooperation between his countries in building a common future.
The implementation of Britain’s exit from the European Union is exemplified by removing its flag from the European Parliament’s headquarters in Brussels, while the 73 British deputies who were elected last May in the European Parliament will cease occupying their positions starting from the first of February, provided that 46 of them are allocated to future EU member states. Other countries share the remaining 27 seats.
With the date of the secession, the European Commission and London will enter into new negotiations on the transitional phase, which will extend from the beginning of next March until the end of this year.
The European Parliament ratified the day before yesterday with a large majority of the Brexit agreement, with the approval of 621 deputies, 49 opponents, and 13 abstentions.
The British Prime Minister, who celebrates the implementation of his previous promises to implement Brexit, pledged to establish balanced relations with the Americans and Europeans, according to what was mentioned in excerpts of a speech he will send to the British an hour before Britain's historic exit from the union, considering that this event is not an end but rather a beginning and that the time has come for real renewal and national change In Britain. ”
To that, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar warned that the failure of the European Union and Britain to reach a trade agreement for the post-Brexit era constituted a "threat to his country", calling on the European Union to protect Ireland's interests during the negotiations that will start with the beginning of Britain's exit from the bloc, while a spokesman for German Chancellor Angela described Merkel's Brexit as "a major change for Europe".
In preparation for the implementation of Brexit, a survey of the labor market in Britain revealed last month that most British companies closed their doors in the face of new employment and stopped temporary employment amid the escalation of the repercussions of the "Brexit" process, as the British economy recorded the slowest annual growth rate in about seven years in October last year, while The British Statistical Office considered that the close of the Brexit deadline and the global economic slowdown had had a negative impact on Britain's factories and construction sector during this month.