Britain, the edge of the EU closer to the Brexit agreement
Britain, the edge of the EU closer to the Brexit agreement
BRUSSELS: Negotiators have come close to an agreement on the terms of Britain's divorce from the European Union after the two sides narrowed differences on a key point: how to avoid a physical border between Ireland and Northern Ireland .
While problems continue, London and Brussels could resolve the so-called Brexit agreement in time for a critical summit of EU leaders next week, British and EU diplomats close to the talks said. That would leave the two parties to agree on a summary of their future trade and security ties, and for US parliamentarians. UU And Europe ratify an agreement before the division scheduled on March 29.
New optimism has surrounded the conversations since the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, escaped unharmed from last week's annual conference of her Conservative Party. The British pound rose on Tuesday after The Wall Street Journal reported that a possible deal was coming.
Officials said progress has been made in overcoming two of the final obstacles to a pact covering Britain's withdrawal from the bloc: how to avoid erecting physical checkpoints on the island of Ireland and how the general agreement should be enforced with the Brexit.
The question of the Irish border arises because Ireland is staying in the EU, while Northern Ireland is going along with the rest of the United Kingdom. This separation would normally require customs and regulatory controls on goods moving from one territory to another.
The EU originally insisted that customs and regulatory controls should be carried out along the Irish Sea between mainland Britain and Northern Ireland. But Ms. May has said she would effectively carve the United Kingdom in two customs areas and undermine the constitutional integrity of Britain.
According to diplomats, under a compromise that is currently being discussed in the last few days, the UK will accept an increase in regulatory controls on products ranging from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, so no new controls are needed in its sensitive border with the Republic of Ireland. Meanwhile, the EU is trying to reduce the number of necessary controls along the Irish Sea.
A solution is also emerging about who has the final say in disputes over a divorce settlement. The EU has said for a long time that the Court of Justice of the European Union should be the arbitrator, while Great Britain has said that it wants to end the role of the EU Court in Britain after the Brexit. But under an emerging commitment, a EU-U.K union. The panel could refer a dispute to the ECJ. The EU could not unilaterally request the intervention of the Court of Justice.
Diplomats said the talks will likely continue throughout the day throughout this week. But they say that a text could be tentatively agreed by Monday, in time to be signed by the EU ministers in Luxembourg the next day and by the leaders of the bloc in Brussels on October 17.
For the negotiations to be successful, an agreement on the terms of exit must be accompanied by a separate plan on the form of future trade and security relations between the United Kingdom and the EU.
London wants to make sure that the parallel agreement allows future trade frictions to be minimized. The EU has been divided as to the amount of details that the plan must contain. Some, like France, have pushed for this declaration to establish which options are discarded for future commercial relations.
But there is a growing consensus that the text should keep options open for Britain, people close to the talks said. The two parties aim to accept the plan, which will not be legally binding, by November. Official trade negotiations can only begin once the UK leaves the EU next spring.
How to get to Brexit
A timeline on the next steps towards a divorce agreement between Great Britain and the European Union.
- October the 17th Summit of the European Union. Possible agreement on the Brexit withdrawal agreement
- Mid-November EU special provisional summit aimed at signing the Brexit agreement and a summary of future links, including trade and security
- December January Possible debates and ratifications in the British and European parliaments on a withdrawal agreement
- March 29, 201 9 Britain leaves the EU
- December 31, 2020 End of the transition period after the scheduled Brexit, when the new rules begin.
EU officials hope to have an early draft of that parallel agreement ready by Monday, setting out basic principles.
As a sign of progress, the European Commission postponed the publication of new contingency plans for a non-negotiated Brexit this week, seeking to avoid injecting new tensions into the talks.
Any retirement agreement, which will include a $ 50 billion divorce bill, will establish what is likely to be a tense vote in Westminster for Ms. May's minority conservative government.
Legislators from his own party have said they will reject any agreement that keeps the UK too closely linked to the EU. Your government also depends on the support of the small Unionist Democratic Party of Northern Ireland.
On Tuesday, in Brussels, after meeting with the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, DUP leader Arlene Foster said that her party has "red-hot" lines so as not to allow new regulatory or customs barriers to trade. within the United Kingdom. Fast forward, saying that talks at the Irish border could go on for several more weeks.
Mr. Barnier has been working for weeks on ways to "de-dramatize" the problem of Northern Ireland by outlining ways in which controls could move away from the Irish Sea.
They could be carried out at company facilities, on ships at sea and using technology to make them as efficient as possible. The United Kingdom is also fine-tuning new proposals that allow for greater regulatory controls on products traveling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
A set of controls that would have to occur in the Irish Sea is about live animals. Now, due to differences between British and Irish agricultural regulations in the continent, around 10% of live animals receive a health check when they leave mainland Britain.
Once Britain leaves the EU, in theory that would rise to 100%, but officials are working on a compromise that could keep the percentage much lower than that of live animals and animal products.
Write to Laurence Norman in laurence.norman@wsj.com
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