Brexit: first step approved

The favorable vote comes on the eve of the publication of a "White Paper" in detail the strategy Theresa May.

MEPs voted 498 votes to 114 for further study of the text, after being rejected by 336 votes to 100 an amendment submitted by the parliamentarians of the Scottish National Party (SNP), which sought to eradicate the bill.

This text required that the bill has not been studied because the government has "no plan" to consult regional parliaments had "not published a White Paper" on Theresa May's strategy, "he refuses to give a guarantee on citizens' situation EU who live in the United Kingdom "and not answer a series of questions about" the consequences of the withdrawal of the "single European market. (ATS / NXP)