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Brexit deal: Some Progress, but big gaps remain

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December 18, 2020
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Brexit deal: Some Progress, but big gaps remain

UK PM, Boris Johnson (L) and EU Chief, Ursula von der Leyen.

Leaders from Britain and the European Union (EU) have admonished that despite some progress, “big gaps remain” over a trade deal that would keep the UK from ending the transition period with the EU without a deal in place.

The EU President, Ursula von der Leyen said “substantial progress” had been made on several issues, but fishing rights remained a point of contention. At the same time, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that a no-deal outcome was becoming “very likely.”

“We welcomed substantial progress on many issues. Yet big differences remain to be bridged, in particular on fisheries. Bridging them will be very challenging,” von der Leyen said following the latest series of talks, adding that negotiations will still continue.

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With just days to go before the end-of-year deadline, the British PM’s office opted for a more pessimistic tone.

“The prime minister repeated that little time was left,” a spokesman for the British PM said. “He said that, if no agreement could be reached, the UK and the EU would part as friends, with the UK trading with the EU on Australian-style terms.”

The UK officially left the EU on January 31, 2020, but trade and other sectors remain within the bloc’s structures until the year ends. If this deadline passes, trade between the EU and UK will fall back on rules and tariffs established by the World Trade Organization in 1995.

The UK will have to start paying tariffs on imports from the EU, and vice versa.

  • ‘Strong possibility’ of no trade deal with EU
  • Fishing negotiations could sink Brexit deal: EU Chief

Negotiators on both sides have been involved in prolonged discussions to reach common ground in terms of a trade deal before the December 31 deadline. However, three main areas of concern remain.

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Fishing remains a sticking point in Brexit deal

The first main area of concern, where the UK and EU are attempting to bridge big differences, is EU nations’ access to UK fishing waters. Ms von der Leyen has warned that overcoming gaps on this issue “will be very challenging.”

Mr Johnson has also condemned the EU’s position on the issue of fisheries as “simply not reasonable” and told the EU President that, if there was to be an agreement, it “needed to shift significantly”.

Another main bone of contention that has proved to be a sticking point is the governance of any deal that is reached, in terms of differences over legal oversight

Finally, talks on a deal have so far failed largely because of the UK’s insistence that it should trade with the bloc with as few restraints as possible and the EU’s stance that Britain must stick to EU rules to ensure fair competition.

The UK claims that the EU intends to subvert Britain’s status as an independent and sovereign nation by forcing it to obey the bloc’s rules. The EU, in turn, fears that Britain could drastically lower its social and environmental standards while subsidizing UK industry with state money, thus creating a low-regulation economic rival hovering at its margins.

The European Parliament has set a three-day deadline for a post-Brexit trade deal to be agreed, as it warned MEPs will not have time to ratify an agreement this year unless it is ready by Sunday, 27 December.

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