The pair reportedly clashed over Mrs May’s desire to make Brexit “a success” and whether the issue of protecting the rights of expat UK and EU nationals could be agreed as early as June.<\/p>\n
According to an account in Frankfurter Allgemeine, Mr Juncker said: “I leave Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before.”<\/p>\n
After the dinner, held last Wednesday, the UK government called it a “constructive, useful working dinner”.<\/p>\n
But the German newspaper report suggests Mr Juncker said there would be no trade deal between the UK and the rest of the EU if the UK failed to pay the “divorce” bill which it is expected to be asked for.<\/p>\n
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The article said Mr Juncker was shocked at Mrs May’s suggestion that a deal on citizens’ rights could be achieved so quickly.<\/p>\n
After bringing out paper copies of Croatia’s deal to join the EU and the free trade deal recently signed with Canada to make his point, he said Brexit would be “very complex”.<\/p>\n
After the PM said she wanted to “make Brexit a success”, the newspaper reported that Mr Juncker’s response was: “Brexit cannot be a success. The more I hear, the more sceptical I become.”<\/p>\n
And when she said the UK owes no money to the EU, the president informed her that she was not leaving a “golf club”.<\/p>\n
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Jeremy Cliffe, the Berlin bureau chief for the Economist, raised the article on Twitter, posting 30 tweets outlining the dinner’s highlights.<\/p>\n
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s World at One, he said people should take the article “with a pinch of salt” as it had reportedly been leaked by only one side of the talks.<\/p>\n
But he added that the Europeans and the British are “in totally different universes” when it comes to their expectations of Brexit negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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