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In London hopes for a treaty with the European Union are fading. Boris Johnson spoke Thursday night of the “strong possibility” of leaving the transition period on January 1 without a deal. He stressed his willingness to “go the extra mile” to reach an agreement and also to travel to Berlin or Paris. But his cabinet agrees with him that “there is no agreement at the moment” because the EU is still trying to “lock the country into its legal system.”
Issues that have come to the fore in the negotiations are presented as ideologically charged in the London government district. “We have reached the point of principles,” said a British diplomat who is closely associated with Europe’s dossier, the FAZ. “By this he refers above all to the EU’s requirement that Britain not only have to comply with applicable market access rules, such as environmental regulations, workers’ rights or state aid, but also with the to be drawn up in Brussels in the future.
