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Interview with the GPI President on Brexit

Interview with the GPI President on Brexit

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States gains nothing from a UK parliament that remains politically paralyzed by the Brexit crisis, GPI President Paolo von Schirach told Sputnik.

Earlier in the day, the House of Commons, the main chamber of the UK Parliament, rejected for the third time the exit agreement May had negotiated with the EU. The vote makes a so-called “hard” Brexit without transition or special arrangements being made almost unavoidable.

“If Europe is embroiled in these never-ending negotiations with London and if the UK comes out of this crisis weakened and bruised, there is nothing for Washington to gain”, Schirach, who is also the President of the Global Policy Institute, said on Friday.

Read the full interview here