Negotiations with the EU: Britain expects Brexit deal until 21 November

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British Brexit minister Dominic Raab expects an agreement on his country's exit from the EU in at least three weeks. This is clear from a letter from Raab to the responsible committee of the British Parliament, which was published on Wednesday.

He wants to report to the committee after the conclusion of an exit agreement, wrote Raab. "The end is now clearly in sight." At the moment he expects that it will be ready on the 21st of November. The date was dated October 24th. The next regular EU summit will take place in mid-December.

Great Britain wants to leave the EU on 29th March 2019. The negotiations between London and Brussels on the modalities of the withdrawal, however, are difficult.

Although the majority of the agreement is. However, both sides are divided on the question of how the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland should be regulated after Britain's exit from the common internal market and the customs union. Raab wants to visit Northern Ireland on Friday and talk to business people and politicians. It is feared that the dispute could flare up the conflict in the former civil war region.

The British Parliament could overturn the Brexit deal

Brussels has made an emergency plan (backstop) for the Ireland issue as a condition for a withdrawal agreement and about a two-year transitional period, in which next to nothing should change. Brussels' proposal that only Northern Ireland should remain closely tied to the EU in case of an emergency met with fierce opposition in London. A compromise could be for the whole of the UK to remain in the EU single market and the European Customs Union for so long until the issue has been resolved otherwise in a trade agreement. This has been agreed in principle with Brussels in principle, wrote Raab. "An agreement on the details of the backstop should be possible."

The Brexit agreement should be well in advance of the date of departure so that the UK and the EU Parliament have sufficient time to ratify it. The question is whether the government of Prime Minister Theresa May would also get a majority in the British Parliament for an agreement with Brussels. Even a handful of deviants could bring down an agreement.