Brexit Withdrawal Deal Not Open For Revision After UK Commons Defeat - European Commission

Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published January 16, 2019 | 04:59 PM

Brexit withdrawal agreement is not open for renegotiation although the deal was defeated in the UK House of Commons, Margaritis Schinas, the spokesman for the European Commission, said Wednesday

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th January, 2019) Brexit withdrawal agreement is not open for renegotiation although the deal was defeated in the UK House of Commons, Margaritis Schinas, the spokesman for the European Commission, said Wednesday.

"We are always ready to meet and to talk, but the European Council in its Article 50 formation said in December that the withdrawal agreement, and I repeat, the withdrawal agreement, agreed by the 27 [EU members] and the United Kingdom is not open for renegotiation," Schinas told reporters.