The European Union’s negotiator for the post-Brexit relationship, Michel Barnier, told MEPs, on Friday 18 December, that there was “very little time, a few hours of useful time” left to reach a successful agreement with the British government.
But the former European Commissioner still believes that there is a “path” to a deal, albeit a “very narrow one”. Unsurprisingly, fishing was the most difficult point in the negotiations on Friday, the EU wanting to guard against an...