British citizens should be able to choose to keep various benefits of EU membership, including freedom of movement, the European parliament’s chief Brexit representative has said. Some Britons felt they were “losing a part of their identity” by having their EU citizenship taken away, he said. EU and UK citizens “cannot be the victim of the political games we have seen”, Verhofstadt said. EU diplomats also stress that Verhofstadt has no power to put the idea on the agenda of Brexit talks. But he may face difficulty in winning support from the parliament to hand out meaningful EU citizenship benefits to Britons.

Source: The Guardian March 10, 2017 06:26 UTC