{"id":48611,"date":"2018-12-13T20:40:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48611"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:40:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:40:40","slug":"uk-can-get-additional-assurances-on-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/uk-can-get-additional-assurances-on-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"UK can get additional assurances on Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4324\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Angela-Merke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Angela-Merke.jpg 404w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Angela-Merke-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/>Germany on Thursday raised the possibility of giving \u201cadditional assurances\u201d to the U.K. on its agreement to withdraw from the European Union.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI don\u2019t think that we can change this withdrawal agreement. But of course one can discuss whether there should be some additional assurances,\u201d Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters in Brussels, ahead of her meeting with the EU leaders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Merkel underlined that such assurances to the U.K. should have the support of all other 27 EU member states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After surviving a no-confidence vote, British Prime Minister Theresa May is expected on Thursday to seek fresh concessions on the Brexit deal during her meeting with the EU leaders in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, May announced the postponement of this week\u2019s Brexit vote at the House of Commons, acknowledging the deal \u201cwould be rejected by a significant margin\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her spokesman later said that the vote will take place before Jan. 21.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/uk-can-get-additional-assurances-on-brexit\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany on Thursday raised the possibility of giving \u201cadditional assurances\u201d to the U.K. on its agreement to withdraw from the European Union. \u201cI don\u2019t think that we can change this withdrawal agreement. But of course one can discuss whether there should be some additional assurances,\u201d Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters in Brussels, ahead of her &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48612,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48611\/revisions\/48612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}