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Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, warned Britain it will 'regret' leaving the EU
Image:Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, warns Britain will 'regret' leaving the EU

The UK will "regret" its decision to leave the European Union, Brussels' top official has warned.
Things "cannot remain as they are" for the UK in its relationship with the EU once it has left the bloc, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said in an address to the European Parliament.
Mr Juncker was cheered by eurosceptic MEPs as he referenced the UK's departure date of March 29 2019.
Responding to the small group, Mr Juncker said the time would come "when you will regret your decision".
Nigel Farage hit back shortly after.
"The EU is bullying us," he said, before urging Theresa May "to do what Trump has done and stand strong against the European Commission, against the unelected bullies".
Nigel Farage arrives for a meeting with European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier in Brussels
Image:Nigel Farage told the European politicians that they were 'bullies'
Despite Mrs May's Mansion House speech earlier in March, in which she sought to provide more information on the UK's Brexit plans, Mr Juncker said the EU needed "more clarity on how the UK sees its future relationship".
Mr Juncker said "cherry-picking is not going to be possible" in the future trade relationship between the UK and EU.
"I would rather have preferred Britain not to have decided to leave the European Union, but anyone who leaves the European Union has to know, frankly, what this means," he said.
"If you decide to jettison, leave behind, the common agreements and rules, then you have to accept that things cannot remain as they are."
Mr Junker said the EU was ready to work with the UK on its preferred option of the Irish border issue being resolved in the future trade deal, or by other specific measures.

Mrs May delivered her speech at Mansion House in the City of London
Image:Theresa May has been accused of not providing clarity
But he added "we need to receive concrete proposals from the UK first".
Mr Juncker said: "The 27 member states stand firm and united when it comes to Ireland. For us this is not an Irish issue, it is a European issue."
But he was heckled by one MEP, who shouted: "It is a British issue."
The European Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt also called for more details from the Prime Minister.
He said: "There was this Mansion House speech by Mrs May, but it was mainly repeating the red lines that we know already."
Mr Verhofstadt said it was time to move beyond "slogans" and "soundbites".
Mr Farage also used his time in parliament to complain that the UK was unable to complete a trade deal with the US while it remains in the transition period.
"In this USA dispute we now find ourselves trapped, impotent, unable to act," he said

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