Spanish MEP breaks cover and admits ‘EU needs UK’ – ‘Brussels disrespecting Britain!’
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Speaking to Express.co.uk, the Vox MEP lashed out against the Brussels bloc’s reluctance to accept the UK’s decision to leave the EU five years after the Brexit referendum.
Mr Buxadé warned that his party is worried about the future of Spanish citizens in the UK, the status of Gibraltar and the future fisheries deal between Spain and the UK.
But the Spanish politician warned it is time the bloc started accepting Britons’ sovereign decision.
He said: “The European institutions are not respecting this sovereign decision of the British people.
“I think the bureaucrats in Brussels do not respect the decision of the UK and they will keep creating problems on problems.
“We need a strong UK, a great UK, for future trading relations with the EU.
“We have many concerns about fisheries, about Gibraltar and about the situation of Spanish people in the UK.
“But the EU institutions will continue to disrespect the British Government.”
It comes as Brussels threatened the UK with legal actions following a move by Britain to unilaterally delay the implementation of part of the Brexit deal relating to Northern Ireland.
European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic said the announcement by Government on Wednesday had come as a “very negative surprise”.
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The Cabinet Office Minister Lord Frost said the UK was extending a series of “grace periods” designed to ease trade between Northern Ireland – which remains in the EU single market for goods – and Great Britain while permanent arrangements are worked out.
It provoked a furious response in Brussels, with the EU accusing Britain of going back on its treaty obligations in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement intended to ensure there is no return of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Sefcovic – who is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the agreement – said the European Commission was now working on “infringement proceedings” against the UK.
“We are currently preparing it and it would be really something coming to our table very soon. The most precise term I can give you is really very soon,” he said.
His warning came after Boris Johnson had sought to play down the dispute, saying the Government was simply taking some “temporary and technical measures” to ensure that trade kept flowing.
“I’m sure with a bit of goodwill and common sense all these technical problems are eminently solvable,” he said on Thursday.
However, MEPs in the European Parliament have already taken steps to delay formal ratification of the wider trade and co-operation agreement between Britain and the EU pending the outcome of the latest row.
The Northern Ireland protocol in the Withdrawal Agreement was designed by the EU and UK to avoid a hardening of the border on the island of Ireland.
It means keeping Northern Ireland aligned to various EU rules, requiring checks on goods arriving into the region from Great Britain.
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