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reEU member states have started examining the Brexit trade deal after a breakthrough was made in negotiations on Thursday, just days before Britain left the EU domestic market. Until recently, negotiators on both sides continued to fight for the fishing grounds off the British coast, which are also used by German fishermen.
On Friday morning, EU negotiator Michel Barnier briefed the ambassadors of the 27 member states on Friday morning in Brussels on the outcome of the negotiations, as a spokesman for the German EU presidency announced on Twitter. Consequently, the contract text is 1246 pages long. The spokesperson called it a “daunting task” to review the agreement over the next few days. The agreement provides for trade without tariffs and without quantitative restrictions on imports. It also regulates issues such as future police and judicial cooperation and social security for citizens on both sides.
The Federal Minister of Agriculture, Julia Klöckner, announced on Friday aid to German fisheries to alleviate the consequences of Brexit. “We have to support the fishermen, give them a hand in this difficult situation,” said the CDU politician on Friday. The deal between Britain and the European Union involved “painful cuts”. “I would have liked to see these turn out significantly lower,” Klöckner explained. The minister also emphasized that the agreement with a transitional period of five and a half years, the regulation of quotas and the guaranteed access to the fishing grounds provide “at least a certain degree of urban security.”
On the EU side, the governments of the 27 member states have yet to approve the outcome of the negotiations, while in Britain the parliament has to agree. The goal is for the agreement to come into effect on January 1. Ratification by the European Parliament should take place retrospectively in early 2021.
The leader of the British Brexit party, Nigel Farage, has meanwhile declared his fight for Britain to leave the EU. “The war is over,” Farage wrote on Twitter. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be seen as the one who carried out Brexit, Farage said in a video linked to Twitter. “It may not be perfect, but still: it did what it had promised,” the ore Brexiteer said. Farage suspects that in some details, such as fishing, the pure Brexit doctrine of total control was not applied. “But overall, the war is over.”
At the end of the year, the UK finally leaves the structures of the European Union after almost 40 years of membership. The worst consequences of divorce are now likely to be avoided.
