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Originally Posted by Chris
As per, the EU is attempting linkage between unconnected issues.
If maintaining overflight and road haulage are each desirable in their own right then individual reciprocal agreement in each area makes sense.
There is however absolutely no connection with fisheries, and it cannot be reasonable to make the passage of emergency regulations in one area contingent on another. To do so is to treat them as actually not much of an emergency at all.
What this looks like is an attempt to extend a bare-bones version of the transition period, something which the withdrawal agreement specified should be requested by the UK and agreed to by the EU (not vice versa, IIRC). I predict this won’t fly in any form that maintains these linkages, and that if the EU persists, it is likely because they want to look like they held out the olive branch and aren’t at all responsible for any chaos that might ensue.
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The EU press release I posted earlier makes no mention of any linkage at all and only mentions EU aircraft.