Post-Brexit agreement: EU leaders signed the text
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and Charles Michel, after the signing of the post-Brexit agreement, December 30, 2020. AP - Johanna Geron
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The leaders of the European Union officially signed the text of the post-Brexit agreement, a text that will define relations between the United Kingdom and Europe, as of January 1.
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In the Europa building of the Council of Europe, the leaders arrive all smiles.
In front of a handful of photographers, Ursula Von der Leyen, the President of the Commission, and Charles Michel, the President of the Council, seem delighted to initial these few pages, reports
our correspondent in Brussels
,
Jérémy Audouard
.
Shortly after, these famous documents will leave Brussels towards London, via a Royal Air Force plane.
Because it is then up to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to affix his signature.
This
free trade agreement
, concluded
in extremis on Christmas Eve
, will come into force on January 1, midnight, Paris time.
However, the divorce proceedings are not yet complete.
This is an interim agreement.
The European Parliament has yet to ratify the text.
It will probably be done at the end of February.
► See also: Brexit: an alert report on the lack of preparation of the United Kingdom
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