One month before the deadline for reaching a post-Brexit deal, the hatchet is unearthed between London and the Europeans.
The big text explanation on Boris Johnson's explosive bill, which flouts commitments made in the Withdrawal Agreement, took place on Thursday.
Without one side or the other ceding ground.
The attempt at appeasement fizzled out.
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After the tabling of his draft "
law on the internal market
" on Wednesday, an emergency meeting was organized in London at the request of the EU.
The Vice-President of the European Commission, Maros Sefcovic, made the trip “
to express the deep concerns of the European Union
”.
His British interlocutor, Michael Gove, hardly reassured him: he insisted that London would not withdraw its law.
Not impressed by this new coup by Boris Johnson, the Commission issued a statement whose words are extremely harsh, almost martial.
While in Brussels, the chief Brexit negotiator,
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