The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator said on Tuesday that reaching ...
LUXEMBOURG - The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator said on Tuesday that reaching a deal on Britain’s departure from the bloc before the scheduled date of Oct. 31 had become “more and more difficult”, and Finland’s EU minister said leaders would discuss another delay.
“Reaching an agreement is still possible. Obviously, any agreement must work for all. The whole of the UK and the whole of the EU. Let me add also that it is high time to turn good intentions in a legal text.” But the British parliamemt has passed a law saying the country cannot leave without an agreement, and Johnson has not explained how he can get around that.
“The EU’s conditions are very, very modest. The single market cannot be infringed and we want continued peace in Ireland and Northern Ireland.” The EU believes the only possible deal to be had at the summit is a return to a solution - already rejected by Britain previously - of keeping Northern Ireland in the bloc’s customs union.
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