MACRON CALLS MAY’S CHEQUERS PLAN ‘UNACCEPTABLE’, EXPECTS NEW PROPOSALS

SALZBURG — French President Emmanuel Macron said the Brexit plan proposed by British Prime Minister’s Theresa May was unacceptable in its current form and that he expected new proposals from Britain in October to sort out pending issues.

“It was a good and brave step by the prime minister,” Macron told reporters. “But we all agreed on this today, the proposals in their current state are not acceptable, especially on the economic side of it,” he said. “The Chequers plan cannot be take it or leave it,” he added.

The French president, who has taken a hard stance on preserving the European Union’s united front in talks on Britain’s departure from the bloc, said Brexit showed other countries that leaving the EU had negative consequences. —