{"id":190131,"date":"2020-02-01T12:07:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T11:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=190131"},"modified":"2020-02-01T12:08:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T11:08:17","slug":"brexit-johnson-addresses-british-as-uk-leaves-eu-merkel-macron-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=190131","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: Johnson addresses British as UK leaves EU, Merkel, Macron react"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed an \u201castonishing moment\u201d as Britain formally left the European Union (EU) after 47 years on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that his government \u201cobeyed the people\u201d who voted for Brexit in a 2016 referendum.<\/p>\n<p>UK is the first country to leave the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, EU member states gave their final formal go-ahead for Britain\u2019s departure from the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many people this is an astonishing moment of hope, a moment they thought would never come,\u201d Johnson said in a speech broadcast via his Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd there are many of course who feel a sense of anxiety and loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then of course there is a third group \u2013 perhaps the biggest \u2013 who had started to worry that the whole political wrangle would never come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have obeyed the people who voted for Brexit in a 2016 referendum,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cWe have taken back the tools of self-government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dpa quoted German Chancellor Angela Merkel as saying Brexit was a \u201cdeep cut for us all\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA historic alarm signal that must sound in all our countries, that must be heard by all of Europe and make us reflect,\u201d French President Emmanuel Macron said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed an \u201castonishing moment\u201d as Britain formally left the European Union (EU) after 47 years on Friday. He stated that his government \u201cobeyed the people\u201d who voted for Brexit in a 2016 referendum. UK is the first country to leave the bloc. On Thursday, EU member states gave their final formal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,10016],"class_list":["post-190131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-brexit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}