Second Round on the Future Relationship Negotiations With the UK/EU

April 24 2020. Press statement by Michel Barnier.

“On 18 March, we shared with the United Kingdom a full draft legal text for an ambitious economic and security partnership – the full text of which is available below:

March 18-draft-agreement-forpolsec

With this text, which is obviously not ‘take it or leave it’, we have proven that it is possible to put together a complete Treaty covering all areas of our future partnership within a limited timeframe, if there is the will to do so.

Press_statement_by_Michel_Barnier_following_the_second_round_of_future_relationship_negotiations_with_the_United_Kingdom

Barnier also said:

“The United Kingdom has also sent us text proposals on some areas. I regret that I cannot share these with you, nor even with the Member States and the European Parliament. But of course I respect the UK’s request for these to remain confidentiaL”

We can provide the previous proposal, the UK’s approach to negotiations from February 2020:

The UK’s approach

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