A propos de Gide
Fondé à Paris en 1920, Gide est l’un des principaux cabinets d’avocats internationaux.
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Gide intervient dans de nombreux pays et est implanté dans six régions du monde, avec 11 bureaux.
Fondé à Paris en 1920, Gide est l’un des principaux cabinets d’avocats internationaux.
Gide intervient dans de nombreux pays et est implanté dans six régions du monde, avec 11 bureaux.
At a speech at Lancaster House in London this morning, the Prime Minister, Theresa May, set out her plan for the Brexit negotiations. She identified what she believes were the reasons for the leave vote in June last year, and set out four principles that she believes will drive the negotiations for a new partnership with the EU. She also listed 12 objectives which she said amount to "one big goal: a new, positive and constructive partnership between Britain and the European Union". The most significant development was her confirmation for the first time that the UK will not seek membership of either the Single Market or the Customs Union.
According to Mrs May the UK voted to leave the EU "not simply because [the UK's] history and culture is profoundly internationalist". She cited the different political traditions of the UK: unlike other European countries, the UK has no written constitution and relies on the principle of Parliamentary sovereignty as the basis of its constitution. The UK has only recent experience of devolved government and little experience of coalition government. The British public, according to Mrs May, "expect to be able to hold their governments to account very directly, and as a result supranational institutions as strong as those created by the European Union sit very uneasily in relation to [the U.K.'s] political history and way of life". In short, "It was a vote to restore, as we see it, our parliamentary democracy, national self-determination, and to be become even more global and internationalist in action and in spirit".
Mrs May declared that the UK will be driven by four simple principles in the negotiation of the new relationship: "we will provide as much certainty and clarity as we can at every stage. And we will take the opportunity to make Britain stronger; to make Britain fairer and to build a more Global Britain too".
Mrs May listed 12 objectives which the government will seek to achieve in the negotiations:
1. Certainty
2. Control of UK laws
3. Strengthen the union
4. Maintain the Common Travel Area (CTA) with Ireland
5. Controlled immigration
6. Rights for EU nationals in Britain, and British nationals in the EU
7. Protect workers' rights
8. Free trade with European markets
9. New trade agreements with other countries
10. The best place for science and innovation
11. Cooperation in the fight against crime and terrorism
12. A smooth, orderly Brexit
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