Single Market Access Not for Sale, Ex Top EU Official Warns U.K.
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Britain must choose whether to be in or out of the single market when it pulls out of the European Union because piecemeal access isn’t “for sale,” said Jonathan Faull, who retired this month from his post as one of the bloc’s former top civil servants.
“I don’t think it is a question of buying your way somehow into the single market,” Faull told BBC television’s “Newsnight” program in an interview aired late Thursday. “You’re a member of the single market either as a member of the European Union or the European Economic Area, or you’re a foreign country outside it and you conclude agreements with the European Union if you want to and it wants to regarding the way in which your goods, services, capital and people move around.”