“The British people have decided to continue on far from Brussels, but close to Europe,” Alternate Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis noted on Friday in a statement to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA), describing Brexit as a “difficult” and “not pleasant” development.
Referring to the consequences of Brexit, the alternate foreign minister pointed out that a draft law on the consequences of the UK’s exit from the EU has already been adopted, which regulates practical and substantive issues regarding the period after the UK’s departure. “It essentially concerns procedures that will help British nationals in Greece retain the right to remain in Greece and directly corresponds to the provisions in force for Greeks in the United Kingdom, who have already been given right of residence,” he explained.
Varvitsiotis also referred to measures to strengthen Customs in order to meet the needs of imports and exports from Great Britain, which is now becoming a third country, as well as to ensure the uninterrupted flow of British tourists.
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