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Brussels plans to let chaos reign early in the year, believing such a move will trigger the resumption of Brexit trade negotiations with the UK, experts have claimed. Meanwhile, the EU Commission reportedly believes Johnson is lingering until the results of the November 3 US election, with Eurocrats reasoning that if Democrat Joe Biden wins, the prime minister will be more willing to compromise. .
A senior EU diplomat familiar with the talks told Funke Mediengruppe: “It is now being discussed that in case a deal is unsuccessful around November 10, the chaos at the beginning of the year could be accepted for a few weeks and then the negotiations would simply continue.
“This is being discussed now. It is theoretically possible.”
Johnson’s office has already downplayed the idea of further talks after Dec. 31.
Speaking on Monday, a Downing Street spokesman said: “We have been repeatedly clear that any agreement must be in effect before the end of the transition period, and we will not be negotiating any more next year.
“We must provide certainty to our citizens and businesses, and long and endless negotiations will not achieve this.”
There is a widespread belief in both Westminster and Brussels that a deal must be closed before the end of the month for the House of Commons and the European Parliament to ratify it in time.
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“I think the only way to persuade the EU to treat us as a fully sovereign state is to break this now, saying that we are completely independent as of January 1 and that it will not enter our waters unless we give it a license.” . and we will do what we want with our own industries and we will no longer live by their rules.
“If we did that and we were delayed, by this time next year we would have a deal, and it would be good.”
Johnson had set an October 15 deadline to close a deal.
But his cabinet colleague Michael Gove has acknowledged that the door remains “ajar.”
Despite this, speaking with Kay Burley of Sky News today, Home Office Minister Kit Malthouse acknowledged the possibility of a deal before the deadline is slipping away.
He said, “I’ve been in business for 20 years and you prepare for the worst and hope for the best.”
Referring to the more optimistic tone of the EU negotiator Michel Barnier yesterday in the European Parliament, he said: “It seems that we have had a bit of movement from our partners in the EU, the negotiations are starting again, that is cause for hope.
“But at the same time we are getting pretty close to the deadline.
“The government has told companies in private and in public that they must prepare for the possibility of us coming out on the terms of the WTO.”
(Additional reporting by Monika Pallenberg)
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