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That’s right: Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his last visit to the President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
Photo: Aaron Chown (Getty Images)
Now the worst case scenario occurs, the worst imaginable. Chaos not only from unregulated Brexit, but also from the mutated corona virus. The British have a foretaste of what threatens if their country also leaves the internal market and the customs union at the end of the year after leaving the EU. Namely, a trip and Transportation chaos on both sides of the English Channel.
A few days before the end of the Brexit transition period, it is unclear how the UK and the EU could regulate their future economic relations. A Containment point they remain the future fishing rights of EU fishers in UK waters. Another is the EU’s requirement that competitors at your doorstep commit to upholding the rules of fair competition in exchange for free access to the internal market.
All deadlines for successfully closing a deal have passed. Even if an agreement is reached in the next few days, neither the British House of Commons nor the EU Parliament will have time to examine the lengthy treaty. Britain and the EU states are even considering provisionally putting a potential deal into effect in the short run before ratification.
Extend the transition period!
That would then be the opposite of democratic control, supposedly the driving force behind the Brexiteers. There is a comparatively simple way out. Boris johnson You would only have to request an extension of the transitional period, which expires at the end of the year. That would be sensible and understandable.
Because the focus now shouldn’t be on fishing quotas, but on fighting the corona pandemic. But Brexit, a project of self-harm by Britain and all of Europe, has never been driven by reason.
But the double chaos in his cynical calculation may be helpful to Boris Johnson. The British prime minister can more easily blame the EU for the economic turmoil caused by Corona and the exit from the domestic market.
Traffic jam at the Port of Dover, soon to be common.
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Britain, together with the EU, would have to extend the Brexit transition period and thus fully focus on fighting the corona pandemic.
Stephan Israel from Brussels