Brexit is still being negotiated. Von der Leyen-Johnson: "Let's go an extra mile"

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13 December 2020

"We think it is responsible to go the extra mile. We have therefore mandated our negotiators to continue negotiations and see if an agreement can be reached."

Thus the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a joint statement at the end of a meeting in Brussels.

A decision should have been reached today.

Gb Foreign Minister: political will is needed

To reach a post-Brexit trade agreement between the UK and the European Union, "political will" is needed.

British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said this in an interview with BBC.

The parties have given themselves a deadline for today to decide whether to continue negotiations or accept a 'no deal' scenario.

Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin said it was "imperative" that the UK and the EU reach a trade agreement and expressed the hope that the negotiations will go further today, a deadline set for deciding on the future of the talks, currently stalled. .

If not, it will reach a compressed.

Martin told BBC, "workers will be harmed" in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere.

With a little "creativity", he added, a solution can be found.

"We should all try to reach a result. Every chance for an agreement is welcome."

Angela Merkel said, answering a question about the negotiations at the press conference in Berlin on the anticovid measures in Germany.

The Spanish Foreign Minister, Arancha Gonzalez Laya, said that a Brexit without a trade agreement would be a "double whammy" for economies already hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

"The UK and the European Union are interdependent, so let's make a deal that reflects the need to manage this interdependence," he told Sky News.