In view of the impasse in the negotiations for the United Kingdom’s exit agreement from the European Union (EU), one of the main British Brexit negotiators, David Frost, informed his European counterpart that he would not travel to London to try to unblock the agreement on Monday. according to “Reuters”.
However, both agreed to postpone the meeting until early next week. According to a spokesman for the British Prime Minister, the postponement follows the statements by Boris Johnson where he stated that “EU leaders have left the UK unable to continue negotiations without a fundamental change in the EU’s approach”.
“Consequently, there was no basis for negotiations in London on Monday,” said the spokesman, adding that David Frost and Michel Barnier “agreed to talk again early next week,” according to the news agency.
The Prime Minister considers that this Friday’s warning from his British counterpart on the need for the United Kingdom to “prepare” for a ‘Brexit’ without a trade agreement is “certainly pressure” to reach a compromise.
At the end of a summit of EU leaders in Brussels, which had among the main items on the agenda the negotiations with London on the future relationship, after the end of the so-called transition period for the United Kingdom to leave the European bloc (at the end of the year), António Costa devalued the alarmist tone of Boris Johnson and underlined that the European Council made “a new call for an agreement to be reached, fulfilling, in fact, what results from the Exit Agreement” signed between the parties.
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