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Re: [Updated] The UK’s future relationship with the EU
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
To me, the telling part of the BBC report is this paragraph:
Mr Barnier said the UK negotiating team keeps repeating that they are negotiating as "sovereign equals", but the "reality" was that an agreement was being sought between a massive bloc and a smaller nation.
I hope the reality will be that the UK tells the bullies to stick it where the fish don't swim.
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For me, this is the telling part of the press conference
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This week the UK failed to engage substantially on these topics,” he said, addressing the issue of the so-called level playing field for regulations.
"It argued that our positions are too far apart to reach an agreement – it also denounced the basic premise that economic interconnectedness and geographic proximity require robust guarantees. Yet again, this is what we agreed with Boris Johnson in our joint political declaration. This is what the UK parliament approved after the December elections at the same time as the withdrawal agreement.”
Citing the political declaration on the future relationship approved by the UK and its parliament, Mr Barnier added: “What is written in this text needs to be implemented in a serious, objective, legal way in the negotiation. This is not the case yet, I regret that and it worries me.”
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a9482171.html
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