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The Brexit group in parliament will discuss from today Monday what options are left. Negotiators from the European Union and Britain had not reached an agreement over the weekend on the contract, which will regulate economic relations from January 1. The negotiations should continue today. This breaks a deadline set by the European Parliament: Only if a final agreement had been in force before midnight on Sunday could it have been officially confirmed in a very abbreviated process.
“Unfortunately, it is not yet clear whether the two parties can reach an agreement,” McAllister said. “Therefore, there can be no formal approval procedure in the European Parliament before the end of the year.” SPD Brexit expert Bernd Lange also emphasized: “The normal parliamentary procedure for a deal is no longer possible and there will be no further ratifications until December 31, 2020. Now we have to think very objectively about how we will handle the situation.” .
Now three variants are conceivable, but from McAllister’s point of view, all are legally difficult: if an agreement is still reached, it could be enforced for now. This is decided by the Council of States of the EU without the Parliament having a voice. The green deputies are calling for the deadline for negotiations and ratification to be extended. The third option would be a kind of technical break at the end of the year: “stop the clock.” If no deal or other deal is successful, there is a risk of tariffs, legal uncertainty, and high trade barriers from January 1.
Fair and balanced agreement as an objective of the EU
EU negotiator Michel Barnier had previously written after another meeting with his British colleague David Frost on the online service Twitter that the EU would continue to strike a fair and balanced deal with the British. “We respect the sovereignty of the United Kingdom. And we expect the same,” added the French.
Scotland’s Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon spoke out in favor of extending the transitional phase of Brexit. It is now imperative that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson call on the EU to extend the deadline, Sturgeon said on Twitter. Faced with the crown mutation, the country is in a very serious situation that requires one hundred percent attention. In the fight for Brexit, Sturgeon originally wanted to hold a new referendum on the independence of the British province quickly next year. In the Brexit referendum, the majority of Scots voted in favor of the UK remaining in the EU.
In the Brexit negotiations, no agreement was reached over the weekend either. The UK and the EU have recently repeatedly asked for concessions from the other side. The time for an agreement is urgent. Because an agreement would have to be approved in an emergency procedure in several parliaments around Christmas. Recently, many deadlines have passed without result.
Britain officially left the EU at the end of January, to which it had belonged since 1973. The transition phase ends on December 31, during which time the kingdom has yet to apply EU rules. Without a trade deal, experts expect higher tariffs on many products and long wait times at the border. One of the main points of contention is future fishing quotas in British waters, which is particularly important for France. There were also disagreements on the rules of fair competition and the question of jurisdiction in disputes.
The European Parliament had set the final deadline for Sunday night. By then, a full business contract should be available, otherwise MPs would not have enough time to examine. In London, however, the only deadline was said to be December 31.
