{"id":378159,"date":"2018-09-22T08:27:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T07:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-may-hits-back-at-eu-prompting-sharp-fall-in-pound\/"},"modified":"2018-09-22T08:27:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T07:27:46","slug":"presstv-may-hits-back-at-eu-prompting-sharp-fall-in-pound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-may-hits-back-at-eu-prompting-sharp-fall-in-pound\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-May hits back at EU, prompting sharp fall in pound"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Prime Minister Theresa May has accused the European Union of disrespecting Britain, triggering a dramatic fall in the pound amidst fears that it made a no deal Brexit more likely.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement at Downing Street Friday, May hit out at the way European Council president Donald Tusk discarded her Brexit plans without offering a detailed explanation or alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>At a summit of EU leaders in Salzburg, Austria, Tusk unexpectedly declared that May\u2019s proposals for Brexit \u201cwould not work.\u201d He later mocked May&#8217;s negotiating strategy on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have treated the EU with nothing but respect. The UK expects the same. A good relationship at the end of this process depends on it,\u201d May said in a hastily arranged televised statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this late stage in the negotiations, it is not acceptable to simply reject the other side\u2019s proposals without a detailed explanation and counter proposal,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>She said that \u201cwe cannot&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/22\/574828\/UK-EU-Theresa-May-Donald-Tusk-Brexit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Theresa May has accused the European Union of disrespecting Britain, triggering a dramatic fall in the pound amidst fears that it made a no deal Brexit more likely. In a statement at Downing Street Friday, May hit out at the way European Council president Donald Tusk discarded her Brexit plans without offering a [&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-378159","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\/378159","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=378159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}