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The European Parliament has warned that it wants an agreement before “midnight on Sunday”, to review and ratify it so that it can enter into force on January 1.
The European Parliament has warned that it wants an agreement before “midnight on Sunday”, to review and ratify it so that it can enter into force on January 1.
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French European Affairs Minister Clément Beaune said he does not rule out final negotiations underway between the EU and Britain on Brexit continuing beyond Sunday, despite the European Parliament making it known that it wants a text sooner. December 20.
It’s normal not to say “listen, it’s Sunday night we stop here and throw away everything we’ve done.” We will not do it, because entire sectors are at stake, such as fishing, the conditions of competition for our companies in the long term, ”the French minister told France Inter.
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The European Parliament, for its part, has warned that it wants an agreement before “midnight on Sunday” to review and ratify it so that it can enter into force on January 1, once the divorce with the United Kingdom is final. “I know it is difficult, sometimes it is difficult to understand, but we must take this time and not sacrifice our interests for a deadline,” Beaune insisted.
Informed sources in Brussels report that technical talks are underway on post-Brexit negotiations between the EU and the UK, and the fishing dossier is seen as the main obstacle, although it is not the only one. The same sources specify that at the moment it is difficult to predict what the rest of the day holds.
Kilometer queues to Eurotunnel
Meanwhile, there are long lines of trucks in Kent, southern England, waiting to reach the Eurotunnel and then to the European mainland. According to the UK media, this is a much higher traffic than usual, caused by the climate of insecurity at the crucial hours to reach an agreement on post-Brexit relations between Britain and the EU. Many companies are stockpiling assets in an effort to avoid cross-channel delivery disruptions, which could occur at the end of the post-Brexit transition period, scheduled for later this year. Since this morning, the queues on the motorway leading to the entrance to the Channel Tunnel have started in the Ashford area and have stretched for about ten kilometers to the tunnel entrance at Folkestone. There were also long lines of trucks along the M20 between Capel-le-Ferne and the Port of Dover. (
