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Brexit negotiations expected to continue on Monday / AP / TT
Time is running out and Brexit negotiations are “at a crucial stage,” EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier tweeted on Sunday.
A few hours later, the information came in that the deliberations between Barnier and his counterpart, British chief negotiator David Frost, and his respective negotiating team were progressing.
– The team has been negotiating all day and is expected to continue tomorrow. The talks remain difficult and significant differences of opinion persist, a British government source told Reuters.
“The moment of the truth”
The other day, Barnier told MEPs that “Friday is the moment of truth”.
The European Parliament, for its part, has said that it must be notified before midnight on Sunday to approve a deal at an extraordinary meeting. That deadline has already been broken.
“The EU wants to continue to see a fair, reciprocal and balanced deal. We respect the sovereignty of Great Britain. And we expect the same,” Barnier wrote on Twitter.
“Real change”
But the British have resisted and, according to one of the sources at the BBC media company, there will be no post-Brexit deal unless the EU makes “real change” in the near future.
The question of access to fishing waters remains the hardest nut to crack, and negotiations in recent days are said to have focused on how many years it will take to introduce new regulations for fishing.
The UK formally left the EU on January 31 this year, but is now negotiating with the EU what will apply to trade, fisheries and other cooperations from January 1, when the current transition rules expire.
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