KEND wrote:Hollande tells May that free movement across borders is mandatory. When I last checked H was president of france not the EU. So he should STFU and attend to his own problems, which may in part be due to open borders and poor cooperation of security within the EU
Mandatory as a condition for free trade. I think everyone saw this coming. You can't have one without the other which is also the case in Norway and Switzerland. Since England is no longer at the table they can take it or leave it but I don't believe they have much power to negotiate.