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The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson. Stock Photography.
Brexit negotiations are suspended. “Significant differences” remain, the parties announced.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, will now hold a telephone meeting with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
“We will see in the next few hours or days what the result will be,” said the permanent president of the EU Council, Charles Michel, in an Internet news conference on Friday morning.
At the time, there was still no indication of an immediate solution regarding the rules that will apply to trade, fishing and other collaborations in the English Channel after January 1.
And in the evening the news came that the negotiations were on hiatus.
“We agreed today that the conditions for an agreement do not yet exist, due to significant differences of opinion,” wrote EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier and his British counterpart David Frost in a joint statement on Twitter.
Barnier announces that Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen will have a phone meeting on Saturday.
Charles Michel stressed earlier on Friday that nothing is clear until there is something that all EU countries can accept. France, above all, has clearly stated that it is not prepared to accept anything.
The UK formally left the EU on January 31 this year, but will be subject to transitional rules until the turn of the year to make things easier for businesses and the general public. The negotiations now apply to the conditions that will prevail as of January 1, 2021.
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