French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that the door of the European Union remains open to the United Kingdom as long as negotiations for Britain to leave the EU are not concluded, but it would be difficult to walk back once negotiations start.
Macron said in a joint news conference with UK Prime Minister Theresa May in the presidential palace’s garden that he wished Brexit negotiations should start as soon as possible, lead by the European Commission.
“The door of course is still open as long as Brexit negotiations have not been concluded, but a sovereign decision to leave the EU has been taken and I respect that decision.”
The two leaders were meeting in Paris for a working dinnerbefore attending the footbal match between France and England in a friendly soccer mattch at the Stade de France stadium in Paris.
