EU is willing to be "creative" to get a Brexit trade deal

European Union on Wednesday committed to be “creative" in final sts of Brexit tre negotiations but warned that whatever deal emerges, United Kingdom will be reduced to “just a valued partner" far removed from its former membership status.

EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said “genuine progress" h been me on several issues “with an outline of a final text," little more than a month before Britain's transition period as a former EU member runs out.

And she said that on divisive issues of fisheries, governance of any deal and standards U.K. must meet to export into EU, bloc is “rey to be creative, but we are t rey to put into question integrity of single market, main safeguard for European prosperity and wealth."

In EU single market, goods and services can freely flow from one of 27 member states to ar without barriers like customs or checks, and it is seen as a cornerstone of EU. With Britain deciding to walk out, von der Leyen insisted it should feel cold.

“One thing is clear. Whatever outcome, re has to be and re will be a clear difference between being a full member of union and being just a valued partner," she told legislators at European Parliament.