Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel told CNBC the European Commission will not re-open negotiations on the Brexit deal.
As the U.K.'s political establishment focuses on a leadership race in the ruling Conservative Party, European leaders like Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel are keen to remind the U.K. government that the bloc will not re-open negotiations on the Brexit deal.
"The U.K. is in a situation now where we don't know which way it will go." Still, he said, there was "no moment to blame anyone," for the Brexit deal that was agreed and that a leadership change in the U.K. would not change the situation.Brexit has been put on the backburner since it became painfully clear that departing Prime Minister Theresa May could not get a majority of the U.K. Parliament to support the Brexit deal she had struck with Brussels.
Boris Johnson, who is ahead in leadership race polls, said on Wednesday he doesn't want to see a "no deal" Brexit but that the U.K. had to prepare for one, and prepare to renegotiate with the EU. "An extension for what? If the deal is just to have an extension just to have an extension, no, we need a reason to have an extension or we need a clear plan," he said.
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