- focus is on future relationship. 3 main issues:
1) fish (some background: buzzfeed.com/albertonardell…)
2) Gibraltar
3) Goods: UK wants reference to frictionless trade (but you have friction outside single market)
- the expectation is that the final text will be more than 20 pages
- the UK has yet to reply on transition extension date beyond 2020 (proposal is end 2022 at the latest)
- Talks continuing tonight
- Juncker-May meeting tomorrow afternoon (hoping to conclude the text after that, but far from certain)
- EU27 ambos meet again Thursday morning
- Sherpas Friday
- EUCO Sunday morning