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On the 7th (local time), the executive chairman of the executive committee and Prime Minister Johnson made a joint statement after examining the trade negotiations between the two parties.
In a statement, they said: “We agreed that we have not reached the conditions to finalize the agreement, as there are considerable disagreements on the three important issues,” citing the environment of fair competition, the governance to resolve future disputes and the fishing problems. did.
They said they had asked high-level negotiators and the negotiating team on both sides to prepare an overview of the remaining disagreements so that they could be discussed in a face-to-face meeting in Brussels in a few days.
In response, the British government said Prime Minister Johnson would meet in person with Pon der Laien’s chief executive in a few days.
The EU summit is scheduled for 10-11, and this week is expected to be a milestone in deciding whether or not a trade deal will be reached.
The President of the Pon der Raien Executive Committee and the President of the EU Summit, Charles Michel, held a video conference with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the same day and discussed the EU summit agenda. , including Brexit (withdrawal of the UK from the EU). .
At this EU summit, if there is an agreement between the EU and the UK, an outline will be presented, and if not, it is expected to be a place to acknowledge the failure of the agreement.
A senior EU diplomat predicted to AFP that the heads of EU member states would welcome any deal, and that if the deal failed, they would demand urgent emergency action.
When the UK withdrew from the EU on January 31, the two sides agreed to conclude negotiations on future relations, including trade deals, within the transition period set later this year for the smooth implementation of Brexit.
However, the two sides disagree on important issues such as creating conditions for fair competition and fishing, and last minute negotiations continue.
If the two sides overcome the disagreements, the agreement would cover trade, energy, transportation and fishing issues.
However, there are concerns that if a deal cannot be reached before the end of the year, trade barriers such as tariffs will emerge, potentially leading to a no-deal Brexit-like situation in which the UK leaves the EU. without any agreement.
Ahead of the call with the chief executive of Pon der Raien that day, the UK announced its position that it could remove or amend some provisions of the ‘Domestic Markets Act’, prompting resistance from the EU.
Specifically, he explained that if a solution is found in the negotiations on future relations with the EU in a few days, the content raised in the internal market law that has been controversial with respect to Northern Ireland can be withdrawn.
The domestic market bill will be debated this week in the House of Representatives, followed by a final vote for formal legislation.
The internal market bill, presented in October, contained content that could neutralize some provisions of the EU withdrawal agreement on which Britain’s Brexit was based.
The legislation was seen as one of the other obstacles to agreeing on future relationship negotiations, including the EU’s legal response when the UK government did not accept the request to withdraw it.
However, on the same day, when the British government announced its concession position, observations were made that it was taking steps to reconcile to conclude negotiations on future relations.
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