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Tuesday 1 December 2020
Time is running short for a deal to be in place before the transition period expires at the end of the year.
The Cabinet Office minister said EU officials will have to back down if chief negotiator Michel Barnier is to resume negotiations in London this week.
Officials from the EU and UK sides will enter into detailed haggling today and tomorrow.
Significant differences remain between the EU and the UK.
Agreement on momentum, but it doesn’t take too deep a look to see the tensions.
Fisheries is the other major stumbling block to agreeing an EU-UK trade deal.
Tanaiste Simon Coveney has urged the UK to seek an extension to its transition period.
It hasn’t gone away, you know.
That’s according to the latest quarterly survey carried out by the Institute of Directors in Ireland.
The two sides are well apart on a final agreement.
The UK has published its negotiating guidelines ahead of talks with Brussels on Monday.
The terms also include a controversial clause stating that Britain should “return unlawfully removed cultural objects to their countries of origin”.
The clock is ticking as the newly-divorced sides kick off tricky negotiations, with major implications for Ireland.
There are three main issues to look out for in the trade talks: fisheries, level-playing field standards, and Northern Ireland.
The Taoiseach is meeting with the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier in Dublin this morning.
The EU Trade Commissioner also said it was “just not possible” to agree a Brexit trade deal by the end of the year.
Enda Kenny was speaking to the media following meetings with G8 leaders in Lough Erne today.
China has insisted that “imbalanced growth” is better than balanced recession – confirming it plans to focus on bolstering its own economy before addressing trade strains with other countries.
IT’S THE LAST day of November, so it’s safe to say the Christmas countdown has well and truly begun.
With everything that has happened in 2020 so far, many people have chosen to bring a bit Christmas cheer into their lives earlier than usual this year, and decorations have been going up in households around the country for a number of weeks now.
But others are still sticking to their usual traditions and waiting until December to put the tree up.
So, today we want to know: When are you putting up your Christmas tree?
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