In a debate in the European Parliament on Tuesday 11 February, Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator on future relations with the UK, stated that the UK authorities need to “say how far the UK intends to move away from the European Union's social, economic and regulatory model”.
And once the United Kingdom, as a sovereign power, has provided an answer to this question, it will then be possible to determine the level of ambition for future bilateral relations in areas such as trade,...