UK and EU resume post-Brexit negotiations
Those in charge of the conversations held a videoconference this Wednesday, where a new meeting schedule was agreed to continue monitoring this issue
The main negotiators from the United Kingdom and the European Union (EU), David Frost and Michel Barnier, respectively, met by videoconference and agreed on a new schedule of telematic meetings to continue negotiating future relations between the two parties after Brexit.
Frost and Barnier reviewed the technical work carried out in recent weeks, thanks to which “all the major areas of divergence and convergence” have been identified, according to a joint statement calling this first approach “useful”.
The two parties agree on the need to organize new appointments to achieve “real and tangible progress” in the negotiations before June, so they have agreed on a new calendar that includes meetings on April 20, May 11 and 1 June. Due to the coronavirus crisis, they will be meetings through videoconferences.
A high-level meeting is scheduled to take place in June to analyze the progress made so far with a view to determining the framework for relations between the EU and the United Kingdom at the end of the transition phase, which in principle remains set for 31 December 2020.
The Boris Johnson government threatened in the ‘road map’ published in February to abandon negotiations in June if London considers that sufficient progress has not been made. Among the proposed conditions is to leave the United Kingdom outside community regulations in different areas, including trade, and the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the EU.
K. Tovar
Source: Notiamerica
