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FRENCH eurosceptic Florian Philippot said on Thursday European leaders had entered panic mode, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared to inch a step closer to clinching a new Brexit deal.
France’s pro-EU leader has stressed the Brexit ball is now in the UK’s court. He said, while the bloc does not want a no-deal exit, it would be ready if it happened. “Ultra-Europeans are in distress because Brexit is finally happening. This goes to show that when you push back against threats and blackmail, you can get things done!” Mr Philippot, leader of the far-right The Patriots party, tweeted. “Kudos to Boris Johnson, whose will and resolve have helped the UK get out of the EU,” he added.
Mr Philippot has repeatedly urged France to follow Britain’s lead and hold its own referendum on European Union membership, to no avail.
But more than three years after the UK voted to quit the EU, it is still unclear on what terms the bloc’s second largest economy will leave the club it joined in 1973.
Mr Philippot’s comments came after Mr Johnson met French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris for Brexit talks, which have stalled over the stubborn problem of Britain’s land border with EU-member Ireland.
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