MICHEL BARNIER has warned the UK that Ireland will strengthen ties with the European Union rather than Britain post-Brexit.

Income per-head forecast to fall by 6 per cent – just 2 per cent less than under a no-deal departure.

In frank interview, EU chief negotiator tells Britain that any lowering of regulatory standards will be punished.

British officials preparing ‘domestic’ alternative to EU programme as Barnier accuses UK of ‘cherry-picking’.

‘We’ve only been negotiating for nine months. We’ve needed at least five years for all the previous agreements’

Barnier says PM’s acceptance of need for ‘evolution clause’ as standards diverge has unlocked talks.

Delays in ratification process means no-deal could hit for brief period after 1 January.

The EU's chief negotiator has told MEPs that negotiations on a post-Brexit deal could continue until Wednesday but no further.

UK set to push ahead with legislation that would break commitments made to EU earlier this year.

‘Same significant divergences persist’, EU negotiator says – with just 35 days left to avert a crash-out.

No-deal looms as deadline little more than a month away.

Michel Barnier says further negotiations would be pointless if UK does not change stance says further negotiations would be pointless if UK does not change stance.

Businesses will have to adjust to new trading conditions in the middle of a pandemic.

Differences remain on old stumbling blocks of governance, fish and level playing field.

Michel Barnier and David Frost will resume talks on Thursday via video call, after a fortnight of face-to-face meetings

Former terror law reviewer David Anderson warns of serious impact on fight against cross-border crime.

Second phone call on Tuesday fails to convince UK to return to table.

Macron insists there is no margin for negotiation over French fishing rights.

EU leaders have dropped a pledge to "intensify" Brexit negotiations after this week's summit, in signs that Brussels is prepared to call Boris Johnson's bluff on his threat to walk away from trade talks.

A recurrent claim of the Leave campaign during the 2016 EU referendum was that it would be easy for the United Kingdom, once it had decided to leave the EU, to agree with the larger countries of the Union, notably Germany and France ... But the misconception was illuminating for its misjudgement of the European Union and the solidarity between its members.

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