STRASBOURG, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The European Parliament can
only clear the new exit agreement reached with London once the
British parliament has ratified it, European Commission
President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Tuesday.
"In truth it has pained me to spend so much of this mandate
dealing with Brexit when I have thought of nothing less than how
this union could better do for its citizens - waste of time and
waste of energy," Juncker told lawmakers in the European
Parliament in Strasbourg.
"We need now to watch events in Westminster very closely,
but it's not possible, not imaginable that this parliament would
ratify the agreement before Westminster has ratified the
agreement. First London, then Brussels and Strasbourg," he said.
(Reporting by Jan Strupczewski and Philip Blenkinsop)