EU Parliament may veto UK citizen's rights offer - Telegraph
|The Telegraph reports that the European Parliament has threatened to veto Theresa May's offer on EU citizens' rights, branding it a "damp squib" which risks creating a "second class of citizenship."
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In a letter published by several European newspapers, MEPs claimed Mrs May's proposals "cast a dark cloud of vagueness and uncertainty over the lives of millions of Europeans."
The letter by MEPs: "Europeans will not only lose their right to vote in local elections, their future family members will also be subject to minimum income requirements, and it is unclear what the status of ‘post-Brexit’ babies will be."
"We will never endorse the retroactive removal of acquired rights. The European Parliament will reserve its right to reject any agreement that treats EU citizens, regardless of their nationality, less favorably than they are at present."
In the letter, the European Parliament also claimed the British offer would transform the UK into a "champion of red tape," as "each family member, including children, have to make separate applications for “settled status”.
"[The offer] is even in contradiction with the ‘Vote Leave’ manifesto which promise d it would treat EU citizens “no less favorably than at present," MEPs added.
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