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A week before the end of the Brexit transition period, Brussels and London finally agreed on a free trade agreement. There is great relief on both sides, and the Boris Johnson administration has already started selling the contract as a huge success.
The provisions of the treaty between Britain and the EU will enter into force on January 1, 2021.
British tabloid media celebrated the “Brexit Deal” on their front pages Thursday morning as a Christmas present. But after eleven months of negotiations, after threatening tactical gestures and countless missed deadlines, few observers were surprised that the Brexit deal also suffered further delays down the stretch and that the Christmas Eve deal was slow to arrive. But shortly before 4 pm Weisser Rauch arrived from Brussels and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her chief negotiator Michel Barnier looked relaxed at the cameras when they confirmed that the UK and the EU finally they had agreed to a comprehensive trade agreement. to have. “It took a while, but now we have an agreement,” von der Leyen said. ‘It was a long, rocky road. But the result is good. Boris Johnson, who appeared before the media a little later in London, was also visibly relieved: the deal not only guaranteed Britain full economic and political independence, he said, but was also good news for all of Europe. .
