Intensified Brexit negotiations with Britain in recent days have yielded only moderate progress towards a trade deal and differences remain on key issues, the European Union’s negotiator told EU envoys on Wednesday, senior diplomats said. One senior diplomat said the negotiator, Michel Barnier, gave no timeline for an agreement or even any certainty that a trade deal between the 27-nation EU and Britain would be clinched by a mid-November deadline. “He gave no timeline and he was rather uncertain about a deal,” the diplomat said.
Intensified Brexit negotiations with Britain in recent days have yielded only moderate progress towards a trade deal and differences remain on key issues, the European Union’s negotiator told EU envoys on Wednesday, senior diplomats said. One senior diplomat said the negotiator, Michel Barnier, gave no timeline for an agreement or even any certainty that a trade deal between the 27-nation EU and Britain would be clinched by a mid-November deadline. “He gave no timeline and he was rather uncertain about a deal,” the diplomat said.