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Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European commission, has been giving his annual state of the union address to the European parliament and he has reaffirmed his insistence that the UK will not be able to get “unlimited access to the single market” unless it accepts the free movement of EU citizens.
There can be no a la carte access to the single market.
Whilst I won’t get drawn into what our [negotiating] position on it is, you are right in one respect that the language used about the single market, access to the single market and membership of the single market does get very confused. What we want to see is the best trading capacity for British manufacturing and service industry. That could be any of those things.
Juncker: “Europeans can never, never, accept polish workers being harassed, beaten up or even murdered in the streets of Essex”
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