Theresa
May: Poles and Slovaks still welcome in Britain
Foreigners’
rights should be guaranteed, but only if expat British citizens are
also looked after by the EU.
By
Cynthia Kroet
7/29/16, 10:03 AM
CET
Updated 7/29/16,
10:05 AM CET
The 790,000 Poles
and 90,000 Slovaks living in Britain still have a future in the
country after it leaves the European Union, British Prime Minister
Theresa May said, the BBC reports.
“I want to be
clear that Poles living in the U.K. continue to be welcome and we
value the contribution they make to our country,” May said at a
press conference with her Polish counterpart Beata Szydło in Warsaw
on Thursday.
May said the rights
of Polish citizens, who make up the largest foreign community in the
U.K., should be guaranteed, but added this could only be done if the
rights of British citizens in the rest of Europe were safeguarded
too.
The vote to leave
the EU sent a message that Brits wanted more control over their
borders, according to May.
“There was a very
clear message from the British people in the Brexit vote that they
want us to ensure that we can have some control on the movement of
people from the EU into the U.K. in the future,” May said.
May and Szydlo plan
to hold annual bilateral summits, the first of which will be held in
the U.K, they announced at the press conference.
The British prime
minister offered similar reassurances in Slovakia earlier on Thursday
where she met with Prime Minister Robert Fico, according to the
Guardian.
Authors:
Cynthia Kroet
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