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CER event audio: Konrad Szymański speaks at the CER fringe event at #CPC17

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🗓️ 3 October 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Konrad Szymański, Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland speaks at the CER fringe event at the Conservative party conference: 'How to handle Brexit'.

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0:00.0

We had people like Douglas Carswell and Bernard Jenkin, I remember, and many others on the panel with you.

0:05.4

But you told us your views then.

0:07.3

We've liked to hear your views again.

0:08.6

Now, your party, of course, the Law and Justice Party, sits with the Conservative Party in the European Parliament,

0:13.5

where you used to be a member in the ECR, the European Conservative Reformist group.

0:19.1

So you have a slightly different perspective to that of many other European EU member state

0:25.6

ministers whose parties don't sit with the Conservatives in the European Parliament.

0:29.6

But how does it look from Warsaw?

0:31.6

And what kind of deal would be good for Warsaw?

0:34.6

Thank you for invitation.

0:36.6

It's a great privilege to be here and to talk to you in this particular audience about Brexit.

0:43.3

I find myself a little bit in a strange position because as you do, I believe in sovereignty as a main political concept.

0:55.0

So I will try to avoid any kind of interference with your political process,

1:01.0

which is very hard because Brexit is an exercise for all of us,

1:06.0

and we have to do it together or fail.

1:10.0

And the general question put by Charles Grant,

1:16.1

how to make it success, isn't very easy.

1:22.5

I would say that, especially taking into account the tone of

1:27.2

the intervention of Mrs. Samuel, and the tone of the intervention of Mrs. Samuel and the tone of many

1:31.5

interventions in British politics, we can easily understand that it is not very easy to make Brexit

1:39.3

success. And they have to admit that the position of Prime Minister May, in today's circumstances, is very, very troublesome.

1:49.1

And I'm afraid that without the proper internal British debate about it and the British consensus, as wide as possible, it will be really hard to make Brexit a success for all of us.

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