What is important for both sides? Will there be enough time?
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I think fisheries is smoked screens, a red herring and a cod. To whom will UK sell its fish to in the event of oversupply?
And what about chlorinated (oops, I mean chlorine-washed) chicken?
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Something fishy here. Will you pay the fishermen to stay at home?If there's oversupply, we can always fish less. That's what being in control means.
Will there be fish export to EU??
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Won't that be a cod?That's the spirit! More batter!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ble-stocks
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The UK consumes about 115,000 tonnes of cod each year. Only 15,000 tonnes comes from the North Sea, with the rest imported mainly from the fertile grounds in the Barents Sea and around Norway and Iceland. But the species is of huge symbolic importance to the UK fishing industry, which employs about 24,000 people – more than half of them working in Scotland.
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Fiddlers GreenThey stay at home now.Something fishy here. Will you pay the fishermen to stay at home?If there's oversupply, we can always fish less. That's what being in control means.
Will there be fish export to EU??
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But it's more symbolic than economic.
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However, Mr Coveney believes Mr Johnson wants to exit transition period at the end of this year, and so the EU will secure either a limited trade deal with the UK, or the talks will collapse and trade will be conducted on World Trade Organisation rules.
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Apropos the thread title - do we expect there to be any trade talks, or were they another victim of the Coronavirus?
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No more red lines; the only one is in people's minds (in the photo) and has measure zero. It is a Fata Morgana.Apropos the thread title - do we expect there to be any trade talks, or were they another victim of the Coronavirus?
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Each side accuses the other of being unreasonable. The EU is right that the Johnson government has been backsliding on commitments made in the withdrawal agreement, behaviour that has deepened their pre-existing suspicions of a British prime minister who caused enduring offence by comparing the EU to Nazi prison guards. The British government is right that some of the EU’s demands, especially on fisheries and state aid, are too aggressive.
The rawest complaint from London is that the EU is treating Britain as a supplicant rather than an “equal” sovereign state. The EU retorts that the Johnson government is not, as it claims to be, seeking a free trade agreement, but demanding the right to cherry-pick privileged access to the single market.
The rawest complaint from London is that the EU is treating Britain as a supplicant rather than an “equal” sovereign state. The EU retorts that the Johnson government is not, as it claims to be, seeking a free trade agreement, but demanding the right to cherry-pick privileged access to the single market.
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Rudd, a former chair of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, noted that, while Australia, Canada and New Zealand would remain supportive of a post-Brexit UK, their combined population of about 65 million people does not “come within a bull’s roar of Britain’s adjacent market of 450 million Europeans”.
Of the prospect of a free trade deal with Delhi, he writes: “As for India, good luck!”
Of the prospect of a free trade deal with Delhi, he writes: “As for India, good luck!”
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In the 4 years since the referendum, the EU has concluded trade deals with Japan, Canada, the MERCOSUR block, Singapore, Mexico and Vietnam.
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Taoiseach, Tánaiste ask Commissioner Phil Hogan to 'consider his position'
https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2020/0822/1160647-golf-dinner-coronavirus/
On 19 August 2020, Hogan attended an Oireachtas Golf Society dinner with 80 other attendees, while Covid19 restrictions on such gatherings were in place. Although Hogan had been living in County Kildare - subject to a local lockdown during this time - he claimed that he was fully compliant with restrictions. A government minister in attendance, Dara Calleary, was forced to resign.[27]
Some people will do anything for a round of golf.
BTW is EU Trade Commissioner.
https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2020/0822/1160647-golf-dinner-coronavirus/
On 19 August 2020, Hogan attended an Oireachtas Golf Society dinner with 80 other attendees, while Covid19 restrictions on such gatherings were in place. Although Hogan had been living in County Kildare - subject to a local lockdown during this time - he claimed that he was fully compliant with restrictions. A government minister in attendance, Dara Calleary, was forced to resign.[27]
Some people will do anything for a round of golf.
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Pelosi says ‘no chance’ of US-UK trade deal if Irish peace undermined
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Late last week Downing Street briefed journalists that there was growing optimism about progress in the future relationship negotiations, with just weeks of talks remaining.
It is understood that during informal discussions the UK's chief negotiator David Frost pushed his opposite number Michel Barnier for the process to enter, as soon as possible, the so-called tunnel, the final period of sealed negotiations preceding a future relationship treaty.
However, two senior sources have told RTÉ News that Mr Barnier refused to agree to such an intensification for two reasons.
First, the EU believes the UK has still not made sufficient concessions on the so-called level playing field, including the question of state aid, and fisheries.
Secondly, Brussels believes the deadline is the end of October, not 14 October, the deadline that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set, which is when EU leaders will meet for a summit.
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It is understood that during informal discussions the UK's chief negotiator David Frost pushed his opposite number Michel Barnier for the process to enter, as soon as possible, the so-called tunnel, the final period of sealed negotiations preceding a future relationship treaty.
However, two senior sources have told RTÉ News that Mr Barnier refused to agree to such an intensification for two reasons.
First, the EU believes the UK has still not made sufficient concessions on the so-called level playing field, including the question of state aid, and fisheries.
Secondly, Brussels believes the deadline is the end of October, not 14 October, the deadline that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set, which is when EU leaders will meet for a summit.
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I think there is one more point.
Third (or thirdly), BJ has demonstrated his ability and willingness to sign an agreement and then, within months, declare that he didn’t understand it and unilaterally renege on it.
Third (or thirdly), BJ has demonstrated his ability and willingness to sign an agreement and then, within months, declare that he didn’t understand it and unilaterally renege on it.