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UK close to abandoning post-Brexit trade deal with EU due to deadlock on key issues, report claims
22/07/2020
Disagreements remain on fishing rights and so-called level playing field guarantees.
Verhofstadt says it would be a ‘hell of a job’ to achieve success using David Frost’s approach,
But EU warns UK does not understand position it has got itself into.
EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier has accused the UK of "backtracking" on its commitments in the latest round of post-Brexit trade talks.
'Deal is done': New Brexit deal for Northern Ireland is agreed.
The EU and UK are continuing talks on post-Brexit trade, amid mounting speculation that they are close to agreeing a deal.
Government now rejecting EU oversight of implementing Northern Ireland agreement.
The UK should consider the trade-offs it is willing to make in a post-Brexit deal, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen says.
A fifth round of talks will close tomorrow and there is still no breakthrough on key issues, including fishing rights and how closely we follow EU rules.
No-deal looms as deadline little more than a month away.
Revealed: EU chief negotiator’s diaries, The Great Illusion, give blow-by-blow account of moves behind UK’s departure.
Politicians also told not to use term 'Brexit' when talking about UK's EU departure in public.
Brussels’ chief negotiator says talks often go backwards as UK fails to grasp EU red lines.
Theresa May's renegotiation hopes dealt blow as Ireland says backstop 'isn't going to change'
27/01/2019
The prime minister is pinning her strategy on securing a concession to mitigate the indefinite backstop arrangement.
Theresa May is facing growing calls to say she would delay Brexit rather than leave the EU if no deal is in place by the end of March.
One key finding of my report is that – contrary to claims and opinion otherwise both in government and/or the media – there is no evidence of bias against Brexit by the Civil Service or civil servants. I found no civil servants who attempted to frustrate or disrupt the Brexit negotiations due to their alleged anti-Brexit or pro-European sentiments.
Martin Wolf: Britain’s demands for its negotiations with the EU are unrealistic.
While a Brexit deal is about politics for the UK, it’s simply a trade deal for the EU. Boris Johnson’s behaviour in the talks shows a worrying ignorance about the reality
The idea of ‘sovereignty’ is nonsense – let’s give up the obsession and break the Brexit deadlock
08/12/2020
The fact that intelligent people are going round and round in circles unable to solve solvable problems suggests that there is a deeper problem.
The EU will not be rushed into a Brexit deal by Boris Johnson's deadline, Ireland's Simon Coveney says
12/01/2020
'We cannot continue to have crisis after crisis around the uncertainty and the brinksmanship of Brexit negotiations'