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Negotiations between the UK and the European Union will resume on Sunday in Brussels, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced, AFP reports. EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said talks with his counterpart David Frost on Sunday would show whether a trade deal could be reached, according to Reuters.
Despite lingering differences, they said “negotiators must go the extra mile” to determine if they can be “resolved,” the two leaders said in a statement from Downing Street, indicating that the leaders would discuss Monday again.
Michel Barnier, for his part, said before Sunday’s negotiations that “we will see if there is a way forward,” Barnier wrote on Twitter.
Indeed, Michel Barnier said on Saturday that he will continue to search for a way to reach a trade deal with the United Kingdom, but declined to comment on the possibilities of overcoming the current deadlock in the talks.
“We are calm, as always, and if there is another way, we will see,” he told reporters in London at the entrance of the station, from where he left for Brussels after the breakdown of the talks.
Three points still block the conclusion of an agreement: the access of European fishermen to British waters, the guarantees required by Brussels in terms of competition and the way to resolve disputes in the future agreement.
Without an agreement that regulates their relationship from January 1, the United Kingdom and the EU will enter a trade subject to the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), synonymous with customs duties or quotas, which feeds the risk of a new economic shock superimposed on that of the United Nations. pandemic.
