- Jonathan Faull mentioned EU chief negotiator Michael Barnier believes Britain is essential to the defence and safety of Europe
- He mentioned it will be within the curiosity of each side to strike a safety deal
- However the retired Fee official warned Britain wouldn't be capable of purchase entry to the only market
Britain can use its safety and defence abilities as a bargaining chip within the EU negotiations, a former prime diplomat has recommended.
Jonathan Faull mentioned whereas it was unattainable for Britain to 'purchase entry' to the only market Europe can be keen to make sure the UK stays inside cross border safety programs.
Mr Faull was a senior Eurocrat answerable for responding to David Cameron's reform calls for forward of the referendum - a deal rejected as insufficient by British voters.
Prime Minister Theresa Could is because of launch her official Brexit negotiations earlier than the tip of March and has vowed to safe UK corporations the 'very best entry' to the buying and selling bloc's market place.
Jonathan Faull (pictured final yr) mentioned whereas it was unattainable for Britain to 'purchase entry' to the only market Europe can be keen to make sure the UK stays inside cross border safety programs
Brexit Secretary David Davis advised MPs final yr the Authorities was ready to think about paying in for entry.
However Mr Faull - who labored on the European Fee for 38 years - advised BBC Newsnight: 'Can you purchase entry to the only market? It is not one thing that is on sale in that manner.'
'You are a member of the only market as a member of the EU or the EEA. Otherwise you're a overseas nation exterior it, and also you conclude agreements with the EU - if you wish to and it needs to - concerning the best way wherein your items, companies, capital and folks transfer round.'
However Mr Faull confused the private curiosity within the matter of Michel Barnier, the Frenchman who's the EU's chief negotiator.
'Michel Barnier has achieved lots of work in recent times on defence and technique points and he believes the UK is totally essential to the defence and safety of Europe, the continent,' Mr Faull mentioned.
'And Franco-British cooperation in defence and safety issues is extraordinarily essential and he'll need - and I feel all Europeans will need - a method to be discovered for that to proceed.'
Mr Davis advised MPs in December ministers would 'contemplate' making a monetary contribution with a purpose to get 'the very best entry for items and companies to the European market'.
Mrs Could is because of spell out extra particulars of her Brexit imaginative and prescient in a speech later this month.
Prime Minster Theresa Could is because of set out extra particulars of her Brexit imaginative and prescient within the coming weeks forward of the deliberate begin of official talks
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