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"Our resolution is to avoid such a scenario, but we have a responsibility to be lucky, which is why we will intensify our efforts to be prepared for any eventuality," Barnier said.
The European Commission has presented a series of measures since the end of last year to try to mitigate the consequences of the exit from the EU without an agreement for the sectors that could be most affected (transport, finance, customs, citizens, environment, etc.). .).
On Wednesday morning, opening the debate on Brexit in the European Parliament, the Romanian Presidency of the EU committed itself to taking these measures "in due course".
A day after the vote of the British Deputies, rejected by a very large majority (432 votes against and 202 votes for the EU withdrawal agreement negotiated between the 27 EU Member States and London, causing a heavy political defeat to Prime Minister Theresa May, the Europeans were still trying to clarify the effects.
"It is too early to evaluate all the consequences of this vote," Barnier said, "recognizing the very different, very different, sometimes contradictory and even contradictory motivations of parliamentarians who voted against the agreement.
"In this context, it is the British authorities that have to come today or tomorrow with an assessment of this vote, and the British government will indicate how it wants to proceed with an orderly withdrawal on March 29," Barnier said.
On behalf of the European Commission, European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans said Wednesday that the EU withdrawal agreement negotiated by London and the 27 states of the EU is "that damages as little as possible any other ". Timmermans concluded his speech with a quote from the British writer C.S. Lewis & # 39; & # 39; You can not go back and change the beginning, but you can start from where you are and change the end & # 39 ;.
According to Reuters, Manfred Weber, leader of the group of the largest European People's Party (EPP, center-right), said today that he sees no possibility of renegotiating the Brexit agreement after British lawmakers firmly rejected the document Tuesday, reports Agerpres.
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