Britain is preparing for a fight with the European Union

Great Britain is preparing for a fight with the EU about the structure of negotiations on disassociation and the future role of the Court of the EU, inflaming all bitter war of words and before the start of negotiations.

Minister for Brexit David Davis rated the EU stance on the format of negotiations "illogical" and said that it "slightly offensive" suggestions that the European courts better than the British. The atmosphere between London and Brussels last week is all up to the two sides take positions before the start of complex negotiations on disassociation next month, a year after the British a referendum decide to leave the EU.

When asked about the position of the EU that the two sides first should make progress in the negotiations on the rights of citizens, the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and the financial settlement before they start negotiations on future relations, Davis said that the sequence "illogical" .

"How on earth to solve the issue of the border with Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland if you do not know what is our general policy for the border, what is a customs agreement, any free trade agreement, if you need to change the tariffs at the border or not?", He said in an interview with British ITV.

"You can not make a decision on one without the other, it is quite illogical ... It will be a major brawl this summer."

He also said that Britain is ready to object to the fact that the Court of the EU is responsible for the rights of European citizens who live in the UK after it went out of the EU.

"It will be arguing about the fine details ... like whether the Court of the EU to be responsible for this right after we go out," he said. "It will be an argument about it ... The truth is simply that we go, we will be outside the jurisdiction of the European Court."

"The naked truth is that we want the whole deal at once," he said. "It is said that 'nothing is agreed until everything is agreed' and this is our position on this."

• 14 May, 2017
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