On Tuesday evening, 12 June, British Prime Minister Theresa May narrowly won a vote in the House of Commons on the right of veto that the British parliament would have been able to have at the end of the negotiation process with the EU.
The British MPs finally rejected this amendment and opted instead for a compromise tabled by May under which the UK parliament will only have the right to examine the situation should there be no agreement with Brussels.
Interpretations differed in the British press as to whether this was really a victory for the May government or a disguised concession to the anti-Brexit side, the parliament still being able to have influence in the final process. Pro-EU British MPs at any rate considered that they had won the case. According to French news agency AFP, the procedure needs a new text on this subject to be sent and put to a vote on Monday 18 June.
During the afternoon of Wednesday 13 June, the British parliament continued to examine the draft legislation on Brexit. Debates should this time focus mainly on the issue of keeping the UK in the customs union. (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)