The third round of talks with the United Kingdom (the second by videoconference) was once again “disappointing”, according to the assessment of EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier on 15 May.
Compared to the meeting of 20 to 24 April, the negotiator identified slight progress and “a very beginning of constructive dialogue on fisheries”, he cited as an example, before specifying that, in this area, however, “our positions remain extremely divergent”. But the British side has...