Category: Brexit

LONDON. Negotiations on the EU trade agreement are at an extremely critical juncture. – Britain, with negotiators setting Monday as the “deadline” for parliaments to ratify the budding agreement before the 31 December deadline. France denied the optimism expressed on Thursday, noting that in the event that the agreement is not satisfactory, Paris retains the right to veto, as do...

British and European Union negotiators have not reached an agreement on a new trade relationship between the two sides after the end of the Brexit transition period, London and Brussels have announced. “After a week of intensive negotiations in London with David Frost (the British negotiator), we have concluded that the conditions for an agreement are not being met,” said...

France today threatened to veto a European Union trade deal with the United Kingdom that it considers unsatisfactory, as London and Brussels accelerate to take effect in the coming days. “If there is an agreement that will not be good, we will oppose it,” French Foreign Minister Clement Bonn warned on Europe 1 today. “Yes. “Every country has a veto.”...

Britain-EU trade talks “This is a very difficult point,” said a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, stressing that time was running out and that any agreement should respect British sovereignty. The talks in London continued until 11 last night in London after difficulties arose when the British side accused the European Union of bringing new demands to the table,...

France threatens with a veto Brexit trade talks are at a “critical juncture”, with Britain saying an agreement would be reached “only if the EU accept that the United Kingdom is a sovereign state “. At the same time, France is warning of a veto, saying it will not accept a deal on bad terms, while European Council President Charles...

Noting that the UK economy has been hit hardest by most of the advanced countries by the coronavirus pandemic, the debate could not be more intense than it is today, given the final phase of the Brexit negotiations. The country’s GDP may turn out to be lower than it would potentially be if the country remained within the European Union,...