Brexit Bulletin: Barnier’s Brexit Plan
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Today in Brexit: With Brexit talks entering their last few days, only now are EU member states seriously pushing their own interests.
Six days before European Union leaders meet to sign off the Brexit withdrawal deal, murmurings of discontent from the bloc’s remaining 27 governments are breaking into the open. France is leading a group of countries demanding the EU make clear that Britain will only get the ambitious trade deal it wants if it allows fishing vessels access to its waters and signs up to conditions that would prevent the U.K. from undercutting European business.