Re: Things are going well!!!
Originally Posted by
Meg
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About time we had a negotiator batting for our side
thank goodness Olly Robbins has gone....
And the innings are for:
Downing Street fears that*Michel Barnier*has lost his grip*on the fishing negotiations, throwing doubt over Boris Johnson’s hopes of a summer of swift and definitive progress towards a trade and security deal with the EU.
The bloc’s chief negotiator had been expected to present a compromise proposal on access to British waters during the talks last week but was blocked at the last minute by member states with large fishing communities.
British sources said an unexpected decision by fisheries ministers at a meeting with Barnier to reject a move away from their hardline position had “skewed things late in the process”, preventing a middle ground being found.