Brits will have to ‘pick their cabbages and wash their elderly themselves’ say EU journalists, calling document ‘desperate’Political reaction in EU capitals to the leaked Home Office immigration plans obtained by the Guardian has been relatively muted, in large part because the document is not official government policy. Home Office leak shows unpicking of EU nationals' family reunion rights Read moreItaly’s Europe minister, Sandro Gozi, said it was “difficult to comment … because this is a draft paper”. But he said Italy hoped the approach to free movement that was ultimately adopted would ensure EU citizens’ rights were “as open as possible, and as open as we agreed they would be”. Detlef Seif, a CDU member of the German parliaments EU affairs committee, said that given London “doesn’t appear to have a coherent and unified line on Brexit”, the document was “worth looking at”. On the one hand, wrote Stefanie Bolzen, it would inevitably “complicate the already arduous negotiations with leaders in Brussels, for whom the rights of EU citizens are the highest priority”.

Source: The Guardian September 06, 2017 11:37 UTC