Stumbling through video calls, the long-troubled Brexit talks are heading for a new crisis as coronavirus health restrictions bar the intense face-to-face meetings that have proven crucial in pulling the negotiations back from the brink.
FILE PHOTO: A sign is pictured as British flags flutter at Parliament Square, on Brexit day, in London, Britain January 31, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson/
“It’s difficult to make it as...we would like over video conference,” said a senior British official involved in the negotiations with the EU. Walking side-by-side down grassy paths in a rustic Elizabethan manor house near Liverpool, the two honed in private exchanges the makings of Britain’s divorce deal, which had been unattainable for their negotiators until that point.
The UK official joked that the lead negotiators could have a virtual drink together to help the talks along. EU lead negotiator Michel Barnier went through a severe bout of the COVID-19 respiratory disease triggered by the novel coronavirus and his British counterpart, David Frost, self-isolated with symptoms in March.
Any failure of these negotiations would rattle markets and unleash the most severe Brexit damages with Britain crashing out from the EU’s orbit from 2021 without any agreements in place to cushion the shock for businesses, traders and citizens.
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