{"id":347210,"date":"2018-02-07T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-eu-defends-imposing-post-brexit-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:45:35","slug":"presstv-eu-defends-imposing-post-brexit-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-eu-defends-imposing-post-brexit-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-EU defends imposing post-Brexit sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>European Union authorities have defended as necessary and justified a series of potential punishments against Britain during the time it leaves the continental bloc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An advisor to the EU\u2019s top negotiator, Michel Barnier,\u00a0said Wednesday that a plan to have sanctions by EU members on Britain during the so-called post-Brexit transition period would be necessary to prevent London from breaching its agreements.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cForeseeing possibility of sanctions for foul play is of course part of any agreement,\u201d said Stefaan De Rynck while reacting to some British lawmakers who had designated the plans for punishment introduced in a draft of the European Commission as \u201caggressive\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>De Rynck said Britain\u2019s access to the EU\u2019s single market during the nearly two-year transition phase, as demanded by Prime Minister Theresa May, should entail safeguards as the bloc&#8217;s referring of Britain&#8217;s breaches of the transition rules to the European Court of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/07\/551593\/EU-Brexit-transition-row\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union authorities have defended as necessary and justified a series of potential punishments against Britain during the time it leaves the continental bloc. An advisor to the EU\u2019s top negotiator, Michel Barnier,\u00a0said Wednesday that a plan to have sanctions by EU members on Britain during the so-called post-Brexit transition period would be necessary to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}