The Bulgarian Minister for the EU Presidency has warned UK Prime Minister Theresa May against plans to deny bloc citizens residency rights if they arrive in the UK during the 21-month Brexit transition period. In a letter sent on Monday and seen by EURACTIV, Mr Borissov said that Britain should not be “blackmailed” into accepting an arrangement which would see it lose its right to live But Lilyana Pavlova, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency, said the bloc's laws needed to be followed in full if the UK wanted to remain in the single market until its effective withdrawal in December 2020.
The Bulgarian Minister for the EU Presidency has warned UK Prime Minister Theresa May against plans to deny bloc citizens residency rights if they arrive in the UK during the 21-month Brexit transition period. May has said they should not have the same rights as Europeans who entered pre-Brexit. But Lilyana Pavlova, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency, said the bloc's laws needed to be followed in full if the UK wanted to remain in the single market until its effective withdrawal in December 2020.