Published 19:52 IST, December 13th 2020
Brexit trade talks will continue to see whether an agreement can be reached, says EU
Von der Leyen said, “We have mandated our negotiators to continue the talks and to see whether an agreement can even at this late stage be reached."
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After a call between European Union and UK PM Boris Johnson, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that Brexit tre talks will continue. While speaking in Brussels, von der Leyen said that leers believe that it is responsible at this point to go extra mile. She also ded that both sides have discussed major unresolved topics and negotiating teams are w working day and night to see wher an agreement can be reached.
In a statement, von der Leyen said, “We h a useful phone call this morning. We discussed major unresolved topics. Our negotiating teams have been working day and night over recent days. And despite exhaustion after almost a year of negotiations, despite fact that delines have been missed over and over we think it is responsible at this point to go extra mile”.
She ded, “We have accordingly mandated our negotiators to continue talks and to see wher an agreement can even at this late st be reached.”
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UK and EU h set a deline of Sunday to decide wher negotiations should be abandoned, however, w y have decided to step back from brink. So far, re is sign of a decisive breakthrough on flashpoint of fair competition rules and fishing rights, leaving open prospect of a -deal outcome. Neir side has been willing to walk away from negotiating table and y have been risking blame for huge disruption to borders and to ecomies from agreed tring terms.
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British officials have dismissed negotiations as reaching "difficult points" as UK still hasn't reach common ground with EU for a post-Brexit tre agreement with respect to fisheries activities, freedom of competition, handling of future relations, and police and judicial cooperation on criminal matters. Johnson stated that it was "very, very, very likely" that talks on Brexit negotiations would fail as UK leaves EU single market and customs union. This would mean that UK will stand compliant to World Tre Organisation 1995 terms that are likely to surge business tariffs once transition period concludes. As per reports, tariffs will hit UK’s deal governing almost $1 trillion of annual tre.
Meanwhile, Royal Navy ships are also being reied to take hold of fishing waters from January 1 if deal is t reached. se Royal Navy boats are reportedly 80-metre-long vessels that are armed with machine guns. machines would also have power to t only halt but also to inspect and impound all European Union’s fishing boats operating within UK’s exclusive ecomic zone (EEZ) which can reportedly extend nearly 200 miles from shore.
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19:52 IST, December 13th 2020