EU’s Barnier Sees ‘Serious Divergences’ as U.K. Warns on Fish
- Frost says disagreement on fishing may be impossible to bridge
- Barnier says differences must be overcome in coming weeks
Michel Barnier
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The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, and his British counterpart David Frost both warned that major disagreements remain in their negotiations over the two sides’ future relationship and that time to reach an accord is running out.
In a statement on Friday, Frost said that while there had been “limited” progress in settling their differences on what state aid rules the U.K. will have to follow, the gap between them on fisheries is “very large and, without further realism and flexibility from the EU, risks being impossible to bridge.”