{"id":39769,"date":"2017-12-08T09:07:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=39769"},"modified":"2017-12-08T09:07:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:07:26","slug":"the-message-from-the-eu-to-the-uk-is-very-clear-its-we-dont-trust-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/12\/08\/the-message-from-the-eu-to-the-uk-is-very-clear-its-we-dont-trust-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The message from the EU to the UK is very clear: it’s ‘We don’t trust you’"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are the terms of the agreement reached\u00a0 this morning<\/a> between the EU and the UK as they relate to EU citizens making application to stay in the UK after Brexit:<\/p>\n

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I have negotiated quite a lot of deals in my life.\u00a0 Most, thankfully, have been on the basis of mutual trust.\u00a0 That has meant there has been no need to spell out all the nitty-gritty detail:\u00a0 it has been mutually accepted that goodwill would be exercised in doing so.<\/p>\n

This deal is the exact opposite of that.\u00a0 If the EU thought it was necessary to specify that a UK application form\u00a0 for their citizens would be ' short, simple, user-friendly and adjusted to the context of the Withdrawal Agreement'\u00a0 then what they are actually saying is that they anticipated the UK putting every possible\u00a0 obstacle in the way of EU citizens remaining in the UK whatever any final agreement might have said.<\/p>\n

You might, of course, say that I am nitpicking in pointing this out,\u00a0 but I do not agree.\u00a0 Remember that this morning's agreement has no legal force:\u00a0 all it does is let the parties\u00a0 move on to the next stage of discussion.\u00a0 In that case\u00a0 the message from this clause is loud and clear.\u00a0 Things might have, just about, and at the last-gasp, moved on,\u00a0 but there is absolutely no goodwill between the UK and EU.\u00a0 If\u00a0 something as simple as an application form has to be specified in this level of detail because there is so little trust of the UK's intentions the prospect of reaching a deal at the next round is very low indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are the terms of the agreement reached\u00a0 this morning between the EU and the UK as they relate to EU citizens making application to
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