Britons bomb Brexit negotiations | Financial

That writes the British business newspaper Financial Times. The UK law will be published Wednesday. It contains, among other things, new rules on state aid and the border with Northern Ireland, which are at odds with what the British agreed with the European Union last year.

Conditions

Last October, after difficult negotiations, Brussels and London reached an agreement on the conditions under which the British leave the EU. This includes agreements about the amount that the British still pay to the EU and about the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.

But Boris Johnson’s government doesn’t want to adhere to that now, and that puts a bomb under the negotiations about the future relationship between London and Brussels. Those conversations, which are also very difficult, will just enter the eighth round this week.

Hard Brexit

With the new law that the British are working on, a hard Brexit has come one step closer. That would mean there would be no agreement on how to act after the British departure. Tariffs and quotas will be imposed on products for companies that export to the United Kingdom, which makes trade more difficult.

Last week, Michel Barnier, the chief negotiator on behalf of the EU, warned that a ‘precise implementation of the exit deal’ is essential for the talks on trade after Britain’s departure.

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