Brexit : UK, EU Resume Talks

The European Union and the Government of the United Kingdom have agreed to resume post-Brexit talks today, May 11, 2020 via video conference. During the online discussions experts from both sides will try to seek durable solutions to entrenched divisions on trade and fishing rights. The two sides released a timetable for the next three rounds of negotiations in an attempt to get coronavirus-disrupted talks back on track, following a video conference between the prime minister’s chief negotiator, David Frost, and his EU counterpart, Michel Barnier.
Since the celebration of Brexit day on 31 January, the EU and UK have had only one round of talks. There were two cancelled sessions and the lead players were put into isolation. Barnier came down with coronavirus in March and has recovered. Frost, who had “mild symptoms” of the virus, is no longer self-isolating. While the two leaders were confined to their homes, the EU and UK continued working on draft legal texts, but progress ground to a halt.
In a joint statement, the two sides said recent technical work had been “useful to identify all major areas of divergence and convergence”, but they agreed there was a need to organize further talks “in order to make real, tangible progress in the negotiations by June”.
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