Ahead of this week's Future Relationship negotiations, a quick run-down of the Frost & Barnier letters
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Behind all the rhetoric, there's reason for both optimism and pessimism about the negotiations
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-ve take: little sign of recognising liability/legitimacy of other sides' positions
UK approach of "we want what others have had" clashes with EU's "each relationship is unique"
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UK approach of "we want what others have had" clashes with EU's "each relationship is unique"
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+ve view: lots of the Frost letter is more conditional/flexible than it first reads: use of other precedent might be a way forward
And both sides want to move things along
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And both sides want to move things along
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However, still a huge amount of ground to cover, whether they have 7 months or 2yrs and 7mths
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