Germany’s Foreign Minister warns of no deal looming end of this year as EU-UK trade run into difficulty. Ahead of 3rd round of negotiations stating tomorrow, Minister Maas criticised U.K. negotiating stance /1 t-online.de/nachrichten/au…
The “no deal“ prediction/threat is something you hear a lot in EU circles right now. It’s certainly possible but at this point is more designed to put pressure on UK. No one in Brussels expects hard, earnest EU-UK negotiations to start till the autumn #Brexit /2
That is deemed risky. If there’s a new spike in #covid19 infections in colder months, what bandwidth will Boris Johnson + EU leaders have to focus on compromises they’ll need to make to get some kind of deal -however narrow- done by end of year? The time limit imposed by U.K. /3
