The Irish Prime Minister says that everything is on the razor’s edge The chances of an agreement on Britain leaving the European Union smoothly are at 50%. The talks, which resumed on Sunday, “are on the razor’s edge”, said Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin. “My instinct is that we are
Talks resume on Sunday to prevent Britain from leaving without an agreement. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday urged their Brexit negotiators to resume talks, but warned that no agreement would be possible unless key issues were resolved. “There remain significant
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
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
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
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