EU-UK post-Brexit trade deal "unlikely": Barnier
2020-07-25 02:08:02 source：Global Times
July 24, 2020
The European Union's (EU) chief negotiator for relations with the United Kingdom (UK), Michel Barnier, said Thursday that the UK's approach was making a post-Brexit trade deal "unlikely" as the sixth round of talks ended with little progress.
Barnier told a news conference in London that the UK was refusing to move on its red lines and was not showing "the same level of engagement and readiness to find a solution" as the EU.
"By its current refusal to commit to conditions of open and fair competition and to a balanced agreement on fisheries, the UK makes a trade agreement at this point unlikely," he said.
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