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UK’s Johnson to Head to Brussels to Break Brexit Deadlock

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More than four years after helping set the United Kingdom’s course out of the European Union, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is headed to EU headquarters to try to finish the job.

With less than a month until the UK’s economic rupture from the EU and with talks on a new trade deal at a standstill on three crucial issues, Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed on Monday to meet in person “in the coming days” to see whether they can find common ground.

Johnson and von der Leyen spoke by phone Monday for the second time in 48 hours, as their negotiators were stuck in gridlocked trade talks. They said after the call that that “significant differences” remained on three key issues — fishing rights, fair-competition rules and the governance of future disputes — and “the conditions for finalising an agreement are not there.”

The two leaders said in a joint statement that they planned to discuss the remaining differences “in a physical meeting in Brussels in the coming days”.

No timing was given for the face-to-face meeting. Leaders of the 27 EU nations are due to hold a two-day summit in Brussels starting Thursday.

EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier had no news of a breakthrough when he briefed ambassadors of the 27 member states early Monday on the chances of a deal with London before the December 31 deadline.

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said Barnier’s message was “very downbeat”.

Penny Mordaunt, a junior minister for Brexit planning, told lawmakers in the House of Commons that the “level playing field” — competition rules to which the UK must agree in order to gain access to the EU market — was the most difficult unresolved issue.

Officials on both sides said there were also major differences over the legal oversight of any trade deal and European boats’ access to UK waters.

While the UK left the EU politically on January 31, it remains within the bloc’s tariff-free single market and customs union through December 31. Reaching a trade deal by then would ensure there are no tariffs and trade quotas on goods exported or imported by the two sides, although there would still be new costs and red tape.

Both sides would suffer economically from a failure to secure a trade deal, but most economists think the UK economy would take a greater hit because the UK does almost half its trade with the bloc.

EU member states have to unanimously support any post-Brexit trade deal and the agreement still needs to be voted on by the European Parliament, procedures that would push any deal right up to the end-of-year deadline.

While both the UK and the EU say they want a trade deal, trust and goodwill are strained after months of testy negotiations.

In a further complication, Johnson’s government on Monday revived legislation that breaches the legally binding Brexit withdrawal agreement it struck with the EU last year.

The UK government acknowledges that the Internal Market Bill breaks international law, and the legislation has been condemned by the EU, United States President-elect Joe Biden and scores of British lawmakers, including many from Johnson’s own Conservative Party.

The House of Lords, Parliament’s upper chamber, removed the law-breaking clauses from the legislation last month, but Johnson’s government is asking lawmakers to put them back in.

Britain says the bill, which gives the government power to override parts of the withdrawal agreement relating to trade with Northern Ireland, is needed as an “insurance policy” to protect the flow of goods within the UK in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The EU sees it as an act of bad faith that could imperil Northern Ireland’s peace settlement.

On Wednesday, the UK plans to introduce a Taxation Bill that contains more measures along the same lines and would further irritate the EU.

But the British government offered the bloc an olive branch on the issue, saying it would remove the lawbreaking clauses if a joint UK-EU committee on Northern Ireland found solutions in the coming days. It said talks in the committee, which continued Monday, had been constructive.

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