{"id":151682,"date":"2020-10-19T22:40:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/eu-agrees-to-intensify-brexit-talks\/"},"modified":"2020-10-19T22:40:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:40:32","slug":"eu-agrees-to-intensify-brexit-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/eu-agrees-to-intensify-brexit-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"EU agrees to \u2018intensify\u2019 Brexit talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 The EU has agreed to \u201cintensify\u201d Brexit talks with the U.K. and start negotiations based on legal texts as required by London, following a phone call between the chief negotiators.<\/p>\n<p>Michel Barnier spoke with his British counterpart David Frost by phone on Monday afternoon to agree on the structure for subsequent talks about the future relationship between the U.K. and the EU.<\/p>\n<p>With both sides apparently still keen to put pressure on the other side, Barnier said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichelBarnier\/status\/1318198557590081537?s=20\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tweet issued after the call<\/a> that \u201cthe EU remains available to intensify talks in London this week, on all subjects, and based on legal texts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the House of Commons shortly afterward, the U.K.\u2019s Cabinet Minister Michael Gove said: \u201cI now believe it is the case Michel Barnier has agreed both to the intensification of talks and also to working on legal texts.\u201d He described the EU\u2019s move as \u201cconstructive\u201d and a \u201creflection of the strength and resolution\u201d shown by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Gove complained again that the U.K. had been willing to negotiate with the EU \u201cevery day\u201d in the weeks leading up to the European Council summit on October 15, but that the EU was only willing to conduct negotiations on \u201cfewer than half of the days available,\u201d \u201cwould not engage on all of the outstanding issues,\u201d and refused to negotiate using legal texts, slowing down progress.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted further trade talks would be \u201cmeaningless\u201d unless Brussels accepts it is now negotiating with an independent, sovereign state, and changes its position that all future moves in the Brexit talks had to be made by the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no point in negotiations proceeding as long a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-and-uk-agree-to-intensify-brexit-talks\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snap.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/politico-logo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">politico<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 The EU has agreed to \u201cintensify\u201d Brexit talks with the U.K. and start negotiations based on..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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