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world newsTuesday 9 January 2018
EU states urged to New Polish leader wants close ties with EU partners
dig deep for bloc’s
budget, fill UK gap By RAF CASERT stand his ground over sev- tion,” deputy Foreign Minis- ciary.
MONIKA SCISLOWSKA eral thorny issues that have ter Konrad Szymanski said Juncker’s office sees the
By LORNE COOK Associated Press raised concerns across ahead of the introductory reform as blurring the sepa-
Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Poland’s the EU. The Polish govern- bilateral dinner between ration of powers and gives
BRUSSELS (AP) — Top Eu- new prime minister is look- ment’s stance on justice re- the new prime minister and the governing Law and Jus-
ropean Union officials are ing to improve strained re- form and immigration has EU Commission President tice too much control over
urging member countries lations with partners in the prompted so much unease Jean-Claude Juncker. the judges.
to stump up more money European Union when he within the EU that a proce- EU leaders have ques- Defending the changes,
to fund the EU’s policy am- arrives in Brussels on Tues- dure to strip the country of tioned whether Poland, a Morawiecki said in a New
bitions and fill a yawning day. voting rights in the 28-na- member of the bloc since Year’s address that “as a
budget gap after Britain Mateusz Morawiecki, who tion bloc has been started. 2004, respects fundamen- sovereign state we have
leaves the bloc. Europe- replaced Beata Szydlo “We are expecting Brus- tal democratic rules over the right to mend our jus-
an Commission President last month, is expected to sels to understand our posi- recent reforms to the judi- tice system.”q
Jean-Claude Juncker said
Monday that the EU and UK:
its members have to work
“to find the means to fill Northern Ireland minister quits amid Cabinet shuffle
the gap left by a contribu-
tor of billions of euros.” The Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May returns to 10 Downing Street in London, Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, between Northern Ireland
Commission estimates that ahead of an expected Cabinet reshuffle. The British Prime Minister is preparing to shuffle her and EU member Ireland
Britain’s departure will cut Cabinet as she tries to bolster her authority ahead of a crucial new phase in Brexit negotiations. also remains a major issue
contributions by around 12 in Brexit negotiations.
billion euros ($14.4 billion) a (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) Britain and the EU are set
year. Britain leaves the EU to begin discussing their fu-
next year but has agreed By JILL LAWLESS funded National Health about to have surgery for ture relations, with just over
to pay its budget share un- Associated Press Service. a lesion on his lung and will a year to go until the U.K.
til 2020. Juncker said the LONDON (AP) — British May’s decision to keep need time to recover. leaves the bloc on March
EU’s 2014-2020 budget, Prime Minister Theresa May them in post is in part a re- In a letter to May, Broken- 29, 2019.
which totals some 1.09 tril- started the new political flection of her need to bal- shire said the operation May hopes to secure
lion euros ($1.31 trillion), is year Monday with a Cabi- ance Brexit-backing minis- meant he would not “be agreement on a post-Brexit
not enough to fund the net shake-up, hoping to re- ters like Johnson and Davis able to give the effort, en- transition period by the end
bloc’s growing ambitions energize her government with more pro-EU politicians ergy and complete focus of March and to draft a
in areas like defense, even as negotiations on Britain’s such as Hammond and needed at this important withdrawal agreement by
with one less member. “We divorce from the European Rudd. time.” He was replaced by the end of the year.
don’t have any more cash Union enter a crucial new While Brexit divisions have Karen Bradley, who moved As Parliament returned
to finance any extras,” said phase. restricted May’s room for from the sports and culture from its Christmas break
Juncker, launching debate But May, who heads a mi- maneuver, she is looking department. Monday, May summoned
in Brussels on the EU’s multi- nority government divided to make her Conservative Northern Ireland’s power- ministers to 10 Downing St.
annual spending plans af- over Brexit, had only lim- government more repre- sharing administration has to be moved, promoted or
ter 2020. “Even with a dose ited room for change. The sentative of Britain by pro- been suspended for a year demoted.
of flexibility we have at- most senior government moting more women, peo- amid a stalemate between She removed Patrick
tained the limits of the Eu- ministers, including Foreign ple from ethnic minorities the main Irish nationalist McLoughlin, who as Con-
ropean Union budget.” Secretary Boris Johnson, and recently elected law- and British unionist parties. servative Party chairman
He said that spending to Brexit Secretary David Da- makers to leadership posts. The parties in Belfast have oversaw last year’s disas-
run the world’s biggest vis, Home Secretary Amber Her shuffle was complicat- missed several govern- trous election campaign.
trading bloc “costs the Eu- Rudd and Treasury chief ed by the resignation of the ment-imposed deadlines The party lost its majority in
ropean taxpayer one cup Philip Hammond, all kept U.K.’s minister for Northern to restore power sharing, Parliament after May called
of coffee a day, that’s all. their jobs. So did Health Ireland amid a long-run- and Northern Ireland faces a snap election aimed at
I think that Europe’s worth Secretary Jeremy Hunt, a ning political crisis in Belfast. direct rule from London if a consolidating her grip on
more than one cup of cof- frequent target of criticism James Brokenshire said he solution is not found soon. power and strengthening
fee a day.” Thrashing out over failings in the state- was quitting because he is The status of the border her hand in Brexit talks with
Europe’s long-term bud- the EU. McLoughlin was re-
get, set out in periods of at placed by Brandon Lewis,
least five years, is often a a former immigration minis-
long and arduous process. ter. May lost a key Cabinet
The Commission wants the ally before Christmas, when
plan wrapped up before de-facto deputy leader
elections to the European Damian Green was forced
Parliament are held in May to resign for making mis-
2019 to ensure that posi- leading statements about
tions on the spending proj- pornography found on his
ect are not undermined by office computer.
campaigning. His role as May’s chief lieu-
EU Budget Commissioner tenant was filled by David
Guenther Oettinger said Lidington, who bears the
half the shortfall should be grand title of minister for
made up by spending cuts the Cabinet Office and
and streamlining in some Chancellor of the Duchy of
sectors while the other half Lancaster.
should come in the form of May is set to continue shuf-
contributions from the re- fling government ranks on
maining 27 EU countries.q Tuesday. q
