{"id":12712,"date":"2020-01-30T20:43:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T15:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=12712"},"modified":"2020-01-30T20:43:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T15:43:41","slug":"eu-lawmakers-grant-final-approval-to-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/12712","title":{"rendered":"EU Lawmakers Grant Final Approval To Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament gave final approval to Britain\u2019s divorce from the European Union on Wednesday, paving the way for the country to quit the bloc on Friday after nearly half a century and delivering a major setback for European integration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After an emotional debate during which several speakers shed tears, EU lawmakers voted 621 for and 49 against the Brexit agreement sealed between Britain and the 27 other member states last October, more than three years since Britons voted out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen lawmakers abstained and the chamber then broke into a rendition of Auld Lang Syne, a traditional Scottish folk song of farewell. Britain\u2019s 73 departing EU lawmakers headed for an \u201cAu Revoir\u201d party in the EU chamber after the vote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, Britain\u2019s ambassador to the EU handed documents formalising Brexit to a senior EU official. Against a backdrop of British and EU flags at the bloc\u2019s Brussels headquarters, Tim Barrow, smiling, passed over a dark blue leather file embossed with the emblem of the United Kingdom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament gave final approval to Britain\u2019s divorce from the European Union on Wednesday, paving the way for the country to quit the bloc on Friday after nearly half a century and delivering a major setback for European integration. &nbsp; After an emotional debate during which several speakers shed tears, EU lawmakers voted 621 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12714,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712\/revisions\/12714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}