As Britain goes to the polls, the EU is preparing a brand new list of '#Brexit Unicorns'. My latest @Telegraph comment:
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
The EU's first demand from its Christmas wish list: Boris Johnson should break his promise not to extend the eleven months transition period if he wants a proper trade deal
A second EU demand is that the UK agrees to grant the EU access to British fishing waters "by June, so in four months”
Thirdly, the EU wants the UK to sign up to so-called level playing field commitments to guarantee it will not undercut European social, tax and environmental standards, redefining a refusal to copy the EU's failing model of excessive regulation when exporting to EU as "dumping"
Fourthly, security cooperation will be a further condition of a EU-UK trade deal. If UK becomes a competitor and diverges, this will not only result in reduced EU market access, but it will also hurt cooperation in other areas. All “to keep UK in the continental Europe's orbit”.
A fifth demand is that the new relationship should be governed by a single overarching deal, instead of a Swiss-style patchwork of bilateral agreements + EU wants some kind of permanent framework to govern the relationship, with a coordinating body and two EU-UK summits per year
Furthermore, The EU will also attempt to make the UK sign up to freedom of movement in return for tariff-free market access, "so not to split the four freedoms" - never mind that free movement of persons was carved off in the EU-Ukraine deal
