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Theresa May: Poles and Slovaks still welcome in Britain


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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