Tusk on Resignations: Politicians Come and Go, but the Problems They Created Remain

President of the European Council Donald Tusk stated on Monday in Brussels, commenting on the resignations in the British government, that Brexit is the biggest problem in the history of British-European relations and that a solution to this problem is nowhere near, with or without resigning politicians.

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“Politicians come and go, but the problems they created remain. The mess surrounding Brexit is the biggest problem in the history of EU relations with Great Britain and is far from being resolved with or without David Davis,” Tusk said at a press conference, responding to a question to comment on the resignations in the British government.

Brexit Minister David Davis resigned because he does not want to be a “reluctant participant” in Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans regarding future relations with the EU. After Davis, Foreign Minister Boris Johnson also resigned. Both were the loudest advocates of Brexit and a complete break from the European Union.

“I can only regret that the idea of Brexit did not leave together with Davis and Johnson. But who knows,” Tusk later tweeted.

Prime Minister Theresa May gathered her cabinet at the Prime Minister’s residence Chequers on Friday for a meeting where deep divisions in the government over Brexit were supposed to be overcome.

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“These resignations show that there has been a unity of views in the British cabinet at Chequers,” ironically commented European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.

It seemed that May managed to convince the loudest advocates of Brexit in the cabinet at the Chequers meeting to support her proposal to maintain trade with the EU.

However, the question is whether it is acceptable for the EU to maintain free trade in goods without the other three freedoms that make up the single market – the free movement of people, services, and capital.

The EU insists that the single market is indivisible, meaning that one of the freedoms of movement cannot be chosen while the others are rejected.

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The free movement of people is one argument that Brexit advocates highlighted before the referendum, stating that workers from other EU member states take jobs from domestic workers.