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WORLD NEWS Monday 11 deceMber 2017

Brexit secretary says a no-deal Brexit now less likely

vid Davis told the BBC. so-called divorce issues, are already aligned with
The progress should give including citizen’s rights EU rules after 40 years of
Britain enough time to ne- and the Irish border, be- membership.“We start in
gotiate a free-trade agree- cause the preliminary talks complete alignment, we
ment for once it is outside could have stretched on start in complete conver-
the EU, making it unlikely for months, leaving ne- gence, with the EU and we
the country will have to fall gotiators short of time to then work it out from there,”
back on World Trade Orga- complete an agreement he said. “The thing is how
nization rules that would im- before the 2019 deadline, we manage divergence ...
pose tariffs, he said. Davis said. so it doesn’t undercut ac-
“The odds, as it were, The government’s goal is to cess to the market.”
against a WTO, or no-deal maintain tariff-free access However, Davis noted that
outcome, have dropped to the EU market for both no deal terms would be
dramatically,” Davis said. goods and services, which iron-clad until everything is
From left, Britain’s Secretary of State for Exiting the European The risk of Britain crash- make up a large part of agreed upon — underscor-
Union David Davis, Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, ing out of the EU without the British economy. Crit- ing a caveat in the deal
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and a deal has raised concern ics have argued that time announced Friday.
European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier meet at among business leaders already is too short, citing Asked what would hap-
the European Commission in Brussels.
(Eric Vidal, Pool Photo via AP) who feared such a result the case of Canada, which pen if Britain weren’t able
By DANICA KIRKA divorce terms, the coun- would hamper trade and took seven years to negoti- to reach a final Brexit deal,
Associated Press try’s Brexit secretary said investment and weaken ate a free-trade deal with Davis said Britain wouldn’t
the nation’s economy.
necessarily be bound by
the EU.
LONDON (AP) — The likeli- Sunday.
hood of Britain leaving the The deal hammered out by The danger of a no-deal Davis disagreed, saying the commitments it made
in the preliminary agree-
Brexit would have been it will be easier for Brit-
European Union without Prime Minister Theresa May
a future trade deal has last week means the nego- much greater without last ain because the coun- ment, including provisions
agreement
week’s
“dropped dramatically” tiations on Britain’s March on try’s rules and regulations on the Irish border.q
now that the two sides 2019 departure from the
have reached a prelimi- EU can move onto the next
nary agreement on their phase, Brexit Secretary Da-
Anti-migration leader pushes
to win national power in Italy

By FRANCES D’EMILIO off government aid.
Associated Press Many of the thousands of
ROME (AP) — The leader of people who turned out for
an Italian party that hopes his Rome rally did come
to capitalize on growing from southern Italy. One
resentment of migrants of them was Adriana Do-
and asylum-seekers told meniconi, who traveled by
supporters in Rome Sunday bus from Matera in the “in-
it would be “splendid” if he step” of the boot-shaped
wins national elections and Italian peninsula.
his government can issue “We’re no longer about
one-way tickets home to north vs. south, but against
undeserving refugees. those invading our coun-
Matteo Salvini wants to try,” she said. Domeniconi
propel his anti-migrant was referring to the hun-
Northern League, which dreds of thousands of asy-
was founded in 1991 as a lum-seekers and economic
regional party in Italy’s af- migrants that have re-
fluent north, to its first pre- ceived shelter in Italy after
miership in the national being rescued at sea from
election set for early 2018. traffickers’ boats setting
To do so, Salvini needs to out from the Libyan coast.
build support in the south, Opinion surveys have
an underdeveloped area found that many Italians
of Italy the League has blame the newcomers for
long denigrated as living crime.q