Member States agreed on Friday 22 January that the period of provisional implementation of the trade and cooperation agreement with the United Kingdom should be extended beyond 28 February at a meeting of their ambassadors to the European Union (Coreper). They even considered that the end of April would be a safer bet to take the time to analyse the text in depth and to achieve the required ratifications.
The date of 28 February appears more and more obviously “unrealistic”, one...