Last-gasp Brexit talks remain stuck over fisheries, Barnier confirms
Michel Barnier’s briefing to members of Parliament’s UK Coordination Group and EU diplomats comes with negotiations now perilously close to the 31 December deadline when the UK’s transition period will end.
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23 Dec 2020
It is feared that Brexit talks now risk dragging beyond Christmas, although a European Parliament deadline set for last Sunday has come and gone.
MEPs had demanded that a legal text of any deal be ready and presented to them by midnight on December 20.
Deputies said that, otherwise, there would be insufficient time for them to scrutinise any agreed text and vote on it.