European Union and British negotiators said on Friday they had made very little progress in their latest round of talks about a Brexit free trade agreement, with just weeks left to extend a year-end deadline to reach a deal.
EU's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier gives a news conference after Brexit negotiations, in Brussels, Belgium, June 5, 2020, REUTERS/Yves Herman/Pool
“This week, there have been no significant areas of progress ... We cannot go on like this forever,” EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier told a news conference. The EU says Britain can only go on trading freely with it if London signs up to “level playing field” rules to guarantee equivalent regulatory standards on the environment and labour. London rejects this, saying it will not be dictated to by the EU.
“If we are to make progress, it is clear that we must intensify and accelerate our work,” Frost said. At stake is 650 billion pounds in trade a year before the coronavirus crisis between the world’s fifth-biggest economy and its biggest trading bloc.
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