With Michel Barnier and Dominic Raab, the two Brexit negotiators, having parted on Friday 31 August on a slightly optimistic note and open to a certain flexibility in the negotiating timetable (see EUROPE 12086), the negotiator-in-chief of the EU is reported in the press on Sunday 2 September as having said that he was “strongly opposed” to certain elements of the Chequers plan, translated into the White Paper of 12 July, particularly those providing for common rules for goods and the...