"These are decisive days for the negotiations with the United Kingdom" on future relations, "but
to date I cannot say if we will eventually reach an agreement
. Progress has been made, we have outlined a possible final text".
But "there are three issues: level playing field, governance, fishing" that could create difficulties.
Thus the president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in the European Parliament.
"We will do everything possible to find an agreement. We are willing to be creative but not to put the single market at risk."
As for the veto of Poland and Hungary on the 2021-2027 EU budget and Recovery fund, the president of the European Commission said that "in July the leaders had agreed on a conditionality mechanism for violations of the rule of law, which could jeopardize the EU budget. These are the only cases "and the clause" is a correct, necessary, proportional thing. It is difficult to think that anyone would object to this solution. But if the doubts remain, the Court of European justice, the place where we resolve differences on legal texts ".