Infinite Brexit. Johnson wants to renegotiate, the EU rejects and warns: "Risks if you don't pay the bill"

• Boris Johnson: "Brexit on October 31. We will become the largest country on earth"
• May leaves, the queen entrusts the government to Johnson: "New agreement with the EU, Brexit on October 31"

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We are moving towards a stalemate in the long Brexit process. According to the British media, in fact, Downing Street would have made it clear to its European counterparts that it is ready to resume negotiations, but only on condition that the European Union agrees to renegotiate the agreement signed with Theresa May and in particular of cancel the "backstop" solution regarding the boundaries between the two Irelands. Two conditions that the EU has already indicated that it considers unacceptable and only in the past few hours Jean Claude Juncker reiterated that the agreement signed with May is the only one possible with regard to the EU.

At the moment, therefore, firm bowls and indeed Downing Street has made it known that there are no new negotiations planned and that Johnson has "been clear on what basis there should be for the talks to resume". "There is not a date to which we can now refer - a Downing Street spokesman explained - the prime minister was very clear that he is ready to start these discussions but obviously the central point is that the separation agreement will never pass the parliamentary examination and that this means that we need to revise the agreement. "Johnson therefore seems intent at least for the time being to stand firm on his promise, namely that the United Kingdom will leave the EU on October 31 at any cost, with or without separation agreement agreed with the EU.

Ireland: Johnson is on a collision course with us and the EU
Boris Johnson "seems to have deliberately made the decision to put Britain on a collision course with the European Union and Ireland in connection with the Brexit negotiations". This was stated by Dublin Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, commenting on the first statements by the new British Prime Minister against the backstop and a substantial revision of the withdrawal agreement reached by Brussels with Theresa May. "We can only wonder why he is doing it," said Coveney quoted by Irish television Rte on the sidelines of a visit to Belfast, hinting without saying to suspect that Johnson might want to prepare for hypothetical early elections to present himself as a champion of Brexit and defender of national pride against the rigidity of the EU. In any case, according to Coveney, the statements made yesterday by Johnson to the Municipalities "do not help the negotiations: we just have to wait and see if the London message will change".

Oettinger: London is exposed to risks if it does not pay the EU account
Guenther Oettinger warns the new British premier Boris Johnson: Great Britain is exposed to "dangers" if, in the case of a Brexit without agreement, it decides not to pay the bill for several tens of billions to the European Union. The EU Budget Commissioner said this in an interview with the German newspaper Tagesspiegel: such choices would put the UK's solvency at risk. The balances due are "documented and verifiable" and were accepted by the previous premier, Theresa May, Oettinger insists. Furthermore, a denial by London would put British partnerships with the EU at risk, such as the Horizon research program. Finally, according to the commissioner, the figures referred to by Johnson (44 billion euros) "were not agreed with Brussels".

France warns Johnson: no tricks or provocations
France warns Boris Johnson of any "tricks", "postures" or "provocations" in the Brexit negotiations: interviewed this morning by state television France, 2, the French secretary of state for European affairs, Amélie de Montchalin, has he hoped that "in the weeks to come" he would "calmly" and "calmly" trade in Britain's exit from the EU. Johnson? "I prefer to comment on the proceedings rather than the speeches, especially the electoral speeches or entry to the government. I prefer that we can work" with him, he explained, adding that today "we have the agreement on the table," concerns our "future relations "and" we must be responsible ". "This - he warned - means that we must be clear, predictable, we must succeed in creating a working relationship, which is not in the games, in the postures, in the provocations". "If there is no agreement - concluded Montchalin - this means that we will not have relations of trust".

Berlin's messages to Johnson: "Campaign over, now calm down"
"My message to the new British prime minister is very clear: Boris, the election campaign is over. Now calm down." After Paris, which asked Boris Johnson to avoid "games or provocations" in view of his meeting, in a few weeks time, with Emmanuel Macron, now even Berlin launches its warnings towards London: it is the German State Minister for Foreign Affairs with delegation to Europe, Michael Roth, to turn to the new tenant of Downing Street during an interview with the second public channel Zdf.

"Further provocations are not helpful", says Angela Merkel, a member of the government, who reiterates that the agreement negotiated with the EU for Brexit will not be reopened. "The EU remains united in this", explains Roth, adding that it is "naive to think that the European Union is blackmailed" and that in the end the British "will pay the highest price" with Brexit.

That Germany is not tender with the new leader of the Tories is nothing new: Spiegel on newsstands dedicates the cover to Johnson, with a cartoon portraying him with protruding ears and a missing tooth, like the character of the famous character of American satirical magazine "Mad". Which allows the German head to play the word "Mad in England", meaning "a fool in England".

German government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer announced this morning that Chancellor Angela Merkel had telephoned Johnson, inviting him to Berlin. Obviously, says Demmer, the two have also addressed the Brexit theme.