Ursula von der Leyen has suggested that the UK could rejoin the EU and return to “old friends”, thus rectifying Brexit, GB News reports.
Asked whether she thought Britain would ever rejoin the EU, the Commission President said:
“First of all, thank God. With the Windsor agreement, we had a new beginning for old friends. Very important.”
Ursula von der Leyen has admitted she wants to “fix” Brexit, suggesting the UK will re-join the EU and return to “old friends”. Speaking to Politico, she added:
“And then I must say, I keep telling my children, you have to fix it. We goofed it up. You have to fix it. So I think here, too, the direction of travel, my personal opinion is clear.”
The UK signed the Windsor Framework Agreement with the EU earlier this year in an attempt to smooth the flow of goods from the UK to Northern Ireland and prevent a hard border with Ireland. In the same interview, von der Leyen touched on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying it was “now or never” that a two-state solution would be achieved. She said:
“It is almost dramatic that because of the terrible events in the Middle East, the two-state solution is much more probable than it was months or years ago. It is interesting. I’ve been speaking a lot to the Israelis, but also to [Egypt’s] el-Sisi, to the king of Jordan, I’ve had a phone call with [Mahmoud] Abbas. There seems to [be] slowly but surely the formation of common ideas how … this could be.”
Ursula von der Leyen added:
“[There] cannot be a safe haven for the terror group Hamas anymore in Gaza. Hamas cannot be part of the governance structure. No way. An independent Palestinian state has to have the Palestinian Authority governing West Bank and Gaza.”
