In 2017 the EU showed on their own slide that a Canada type FTA was the only available relationship for the UK. Now they say it’s not on offer after all. @MichelBarnier what’s changed?
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No.10 Press Office
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- 1/5 The EU has set out its objectives for the negotiations with us in the mandate it has agreed today. We welcome that and we will be setting out our own approach on Thursday. Meanwhile, a few key points:
- Replying to @Number10press3/5 The EU has respected the autonomy of other major economies around the world such as Canada and Japan when signing trade deals with them. We just want the same.
- Replying to @Number10press4/5 We agree the UK’s trade with the EU is significant. The US’s is on the same scale – yet that did not stop the EU being willing to offer the US zero tariffs without the kind of level playing field commitments or the legal oversight they have put in today’s mandate.
- Replying to @Number10press2/5 The EU mandate stresses (reasonably) the importance of its own legal autonomy. We are equally determined to protect ours. That is the key point of Brexit and is fundamental to the sustainable long-term relationship the EU says it wants with us.
- David Frost: We believe sovereignty is meaningful and what it enables us to do is to set out rules for our own benefit. Read the full lecture: no10media.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/17/dav…
00:00 - Today we have set out further details on our approach to our future relationship with the EU, the core of which is a Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement. Read more here: gov.uk/government/pub…
00:00 - Replying to @Number10press5/5 Here is the section on trade and competition in the EU’s directives for the US negotiations. data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/S…
- David Frost: We are confident in the strategy we have chosen. Modern, advanced economies are hugely complex systems capable of finding solutions we did not expect. Read the full lecture: no10media.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/17/dav…
00:00 - The government's response to inaccurate claims in The Sunday Times.
- We will be setting out more detail on how we see the shape of the future relationship with the EU soon. Read our overall approach here: gov.uk/government/spe…
- UK Government has sent out only one text message on new rules about staying at home to prevent the spread of #coronavirus (see below). If you see others claiming to be from UK Government, they are false.
- The High Level Meeting between the Prime Minister and President von der Leyen, President Michel and President Sassoli will take place by video conference on the afternoon of Monday 15 June. 1/4
- Chief Negotiator @DavidGHFrost briefs the UK team on the latest on Round 1 of negotiations with the EU. Talks ended today and resume 18 March in London. Read our statement here: no10media.blog.gov.uk/2020/03/05/sta…
