DM Monitoring
LONDON: Britain wants to resume face-to-face trade negotiations with the European Union, but it is a decision for Brussels, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday, reiterating that London was trying to bridge the gaps in the talks.
“We want to resume face-to-face negotiations but it’s for the EU to decide when and if they come,” the spokesman told reporters, adding the talks were still virtual after one member of the EU’s team tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month. Boris Johnson has been urged to walk away from Brexit talks after the EU was accused of adopting an “extremist position”.
An official website of EU while confronting Boris Johnson quoted “we will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights”. Despite Mr Johnson’s October deadline for a deal with the European Union passing, both sides have held urgent talks to try and secure a trade deal before the end of the transition period in December. But negotiators have been unable to agree on issues such as fishing rights and state aid.
With reports claiming a trade deal will be struck between the UK and EU within the next 14 days, Brexiteers have claimed the EU has adopted an “extremist position” which is impossible to “meet half way”. The website and research group Brexit Facts4EU.org has urged Leave voters to bombard the Prime Minister with letters urging him to walk away from trade talks. They outlined two key messages for Mr Johnson: walk away from trade talks and rescind and void the “abominable Withdrawal Agreement”.
They said: “It has been almost four-and-a-half years and still the EU is insisting on totally unreasonable demands in the trade talks which would prevent the UK from acting as a free and independent country after December 31, 2020.
“It’s time to walk.”
The website – which hails itself as the most “prolific researcher and publisher of Brexit facts around the world” – added EU negotiators have not been prepared to offer a normal free trade deal.
