We want to negotiate a new relationship, not a nasty divorce, my goal would be to wrap up the exit negotiations within about a year.

Manfred Weber

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We are facing a shrinking centre, so what I would ask us to do to is to join our forces to work together from now.

We are facing a shrinking center, so what I would ask us to do to is to join our forces to work together from now.

I can't imagine an extension until the end of June. The (EU) Commission has repeatedly explained that in this case, Britain has to participate in the election and this would lead to big uncertainties.

It was a very hard discussion, the message was crystal clear. by Manfred Weber

It was a very hard discussion, the message was crystal clear.

There will be no refugee discount, we'll look cool-headedly in parliament at whether Turkey has fulfilled the conditions for visa liberalization.

Anyone who waters down the European stabilization policy in the migrant crisis plays with fire, the European debt rules must not be weakened. And this also applies for the reform conditions for Greece.

There will have to be more fences, it simply can't be that refugees in their hundreds of thousands are wandering uncontrolled through Europe.