7 Dec, 2020 @ 22:39
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BREXIT: Johnson and von der Leyen to meet in Brussels as they admit agreement not reached on three critical issues

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson greets EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen ahead of a meeting in Downing Street, London.

BORIS Johnson and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will meet in Brussels in the coming days in a last ditch effort to keep trade deal talks open.

The duo held a 40 minute call to discuss the differences between the EU and UK that need to be ironed out before an agreement can be reached.

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson greets EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen ahead of a meeting earlier this year

They issued a joint statement after this afternoon’s conversation. In it they said: “We agreed that the conditions for finalising an agreement are not there due to the remaining significant differences on three critical issues: level playing field, governance and fisheries.

“We asked our Chief Negotiators and their teams to prepare an overview of the remaining differences to be discussed in a physical meeting in Brussels in the coming days.”

This is most likely to happen before an EU summit which is scheduled for the end of the week.

The UK left the EU on 31 January, but remains under its trading rules until the end of the year. If no agreement is reached on trading conditions by then, than the UK and Eu nations will automatically use WTO rules on tariffs.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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