Brexit: ‘Britons just as welcome’

The guidelines – in six sections: driving licences, integration, travel, residency, nationality and elections – cover both a deal and no-deal. They confirm that residency cards will be obligatory.
See our translations in the Brexit section of our website.

This comes as French MPs passed a special law enabling measures to be brought in quickly to cope with a no-deal including for ports, flights, Eurostar travel and Britons whose residency rights would, in theory, be lost overnight.

France’s Europe Minister Nathalie Loiseau said in parliament: “I want to tell British people living here that they will be welcome tomorrow as they are today. Many of them could not take part in the referendum that led to Brexit. They must not become hostages of a no-deal."

She added: “We commit ourselves without ambiguity to do everything to ensure a situation comparable to that which they would have benefited from in the context of the deal. I ask the British government to take the same commitments with regard to our citizens.”

Mrs Loiseau also said British teachers and other fonctionnaires could keep their status.