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Brexit: Impact for EU ‘will be positive’ says political scientist
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson was eventually able to secure a Brexit trade deal with the EU, and boasted that it will help Britain take control of its borders, laws and waters. But one key issue could come back to bite the UK, just as it did Switzerland during their negotiations with the EU over an institutional framework agreement. Negotiations for the partnership began in 2014, but still Bern and Brussels continue to work together on only a patchwork of treaties. Tensions were high in January 2018, when Switzerland's financial services sector was "taken hostage" by the EU.