{"id":76817,"date":"2016-12-02T21:13:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6699f0db95ae04fdce674ceeb22fb58c"},"modified":"2016-12-02T21:13:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:13:04","slug":"news-story-david-davis-makes-first-trip-to-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=76817","title":{"rendered":"News story: David Davis makes first trip to Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>He held an hour long meeting today in Madrid with Spain\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, and Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Davis updated the Spanish Ministers on the Government\u2019s preparations ahead of triggering Article 50 and both sides agreed on the importance of ensuring a smooth and orderly process.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a clear commitment to strengthen the bilateral relationship in a wide range of areas.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Davis will also participate in the British-Spanish Tertulias (\u201cdebates\u201d), the most important bilateral event of the year, in Seville.<\/p>\n<p>David Davis, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I want to ensure we have positive, strong, and productive relations with our closest neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>We approach the negotiations in a spirit of goodwill and a desire to see the EU succeed politically and economically.<\/p>\n<p>The people of the UK have made a clear decision to leave the EU, and that is one the Government will respect and implement.<\/p>\n<p>But Britain will continue to be the same outward-looking country that it has always been.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Britain and Spain have a historic and deep relationship which will endure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The visit by the Secretary of State comes ahead of the Prime Minister\u2019s second European Council meeting this month and will build on the cross-government work already done to prepare for exit negotiations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union David Davis has made his first trip to Spain to engage with senior members of the Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}