Withdrawal Agreement Red Lines

EU heads of state and government have again made a substantial change to the mandatory withdrawal deal they reached with May last month, which was repressed the day before by British lawmakers in the opposing sides of the bitter split from Brexit. In 2019, the Prime Minister welcomed as a success the new revised agreement on the UK`s withdrawal from the EU, reached after close negotiations with Ireland. It contributed to the re-election of Johnson`s Conservative government and was quickly ratified by the British and European parliaments, which facilitated the UK`s belated exit from the EU in January 2020. He added that the UK «requires a normal type of trade agreements like [the EU`s] with Canada» and that this is «really not too much in demand.» Even if Barnier and Frost reach an agreement in the coming days, it should still be approved by the 27 EU heads of state or government. ratification by the European Parliament. And while an agreement appears to bend or break red lines defined by the Council in its initial negotiating mandate, officials and diplomats have said they can imagine the once unthinkable scenario that the Council refuses to support Barnier. Their doomed divorce treaty between Britain and the EU was a compromise. But the scrambling of some of its so-called «red lines» at the borders of EU power has sparked anger within his divided conservative party. When negotiations with Brussels allowed Britain to make further concessions, the government resigned from a series of resignations.

The main change from the deal negotiated by Theresa May`s government is that the controversial Irish backstop of the previous agreement (see below) – to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland – will be abolished in the revised agreement. In a joint statement that followed, it was said that fishing rights, competition rules and the way an agreement is implemented still pose problems and that «no agreement is possible if these issues are not resolved». An agreement must be able to enter into force before the end of the transition period at the end of December. In practice, an agreement must be reached earlier to allow time for the ratification process and to be ready for both parties. Britain does not accept the EU`s requirements for a level playing field in terms of standards and rules, as the UK must be free to depart from the EU if it so wishes. It should «remove regulatory barriers between the UK and the EU while preserving the right of any party to regulation, as is the case in free trade agreements.» The mandate calls on the EU to make mutual recognition of rules and standards as simple as possible, without either side being able to dictate rules. It asks that it «create a framework for one of the parties to require the other party to consider its technical regulation as equivalent to its own settlement.» STRASBOURG/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The EU would consider a possible British request to tighten relations after Brexit, but will not renegotiate the withdrawal deal rejected by Parliament, the Brexit negotiator said on Wednesday. Britain is ready to consider a fisheries deal, but only in the context that the UK will become an independent coastal state at the end of this year. The EU`s current quotas will be abolished, as the UK can decide who has access to its fishing waters and what it can fish. Britain will negotiate separate fisheries agreements with other coastal states, such as Norway. The EU`s 27 national parlamentes may also have to ratify an agreement, depending on the actual content of the agreement.