1. We have just finished a constructive Round 2 of negotiations with @michelbarnier. Here is the UK statement. Thank you to all those on both sides 🇬🇧🇪🇺 who made the Round work in these extraordinarily challenging circumstances.
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2. If we are to make progress now, we need to focus on agreeing a future relationship that has a comprehensive FTA at its core, like those the EU has agreed elsewhere.
3. We support high standards. But there is no need for novel and unprecedented "level playing field" rules, for example tying us to EU laws, or a role for the EU Court. What the EU proposes is unlike anything agreed in other such FTAs and we will not agree to it here.
4. Finally, we are ready to work to agree a fisheries agreement which reflects our rights under international law to control our own waters, & provides for annual negotiations over access based on scientific principles. We won't agree to continuing the Common Fisheries Policy.
