EU welcomes Brexit trade talks extension, but stress unity to protect its single market

European Union leers have welcomed news of Brexit tre talks extension, however, y have also insisted that bloc was united in its determination to protect its single market. On Sunday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, while speaking at Brussels, h said that UK and EU negotiations would “go extra mile” to find an agreement that would guarantee Britain zero tariff, zero-quota access to EU’s internal market after what she described as a useful phone call with Boris Johnson. In a televised statement, she said that both sides have discussed major unresolved topics and negotiating teams are w working to see wher an agreement can be reached. 

Following her remarks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that everything should be done to reach an agreement that would avert a chaotic and ecomically damaging deal. While speaking in Berlin, she said that every opportunity to reach a deal is “highly welcome". Ireland’s foreign minister, Simon Coveney, also said that he believed a deal was “clearly very difficult,” however, he ded that it was within reach providing both sides held ir nerve. 

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Furr, while speaking to SkyNews, Spain’s EU and foreign affairs minister, Arancha González Laya, also said that UK’s insistence on asserting that UK’s sovereignty was an unnecessary obstacle in talks. She said that UK and EU are interdependent which is why two sides need a deal that mans that interdependence. Charles Michel, who is President of European Council of EU he’s of state and government also said that bloc would “keep its cool” and do all it could to make a deal possible. 

He said, “We must support a good deal”. Michel even went on to stress that it would be impossible to put a “cigarette paper” between member states on key issue. He said that EU is reasonable and y want to maintain close relations with Britain. But block also wants to preserve and protect single market, he said. 

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Meanwhile, 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. 

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. 

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