Tusk Says EU Mustn’t Let Britain Profit From Brexit – Polish Media

Britons voted in a referendum last month to quit the European Union, with pro-leave campaigners saying the country needed to set limits on immigration.

But EU leaders have made clear that Britain could not retain access to the bloc’s single market without accepting the right of other EU nationals to move to the country.

“No one should be seething with desire to punish, humiliate (the British) for what they have done to us,” Tusk, who chairs meetings of EU heads of state, told Polish weekly Polityka in an interview published on Wednesday.

But if leaving the 28-country bloc was to become an attractive model of improving a country’s standing, then other countries would also consider doing so.

“We cannot push them away from us, but we cannot let them profit from Brexit, as that would be lethal for the EU,” Tusk said.

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