{"id":19244,"date":"2020-12-18T15:59:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T23:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=19244"},"modified":"2020-12-18T14:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T22:23:17","slug":"brexit-some-progress-more-gaps-as-uk-eu-race-to-lock-down-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/brexit-some-progress-more-gaps-as-uk-eu-race-to-lock-down-trade-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: Some progress, more gaps as UK, EU race to lock down trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19240\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19245\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Brexit-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Brexit-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Brexit.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DW &#8211; December 18, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Leaders from Britain and the European Commission did not take an overly optimistic tone following talks late Thursday over a trade deal that would keep the UK from crashing out of a transition period with the EU without a deal in place.<\/p>\n<p>President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said &#8220;substantial progress&#8221; had been made on several\u00a0issues, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/very-difficult-fishing-negotiations-could-still-sink-brexit-deal-eus-von-der-leyen\/a-55956469\">fishing rights remained a point of contention<\/a>. At the same time, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that a no-deal outcome was becoming &#8220;very likely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We welcomed substantial progress on many issues. Yet big differences remain to be bridged, in particular on fisheries. Bridging them will be very challenging,&#8221; von der Leyen said following Thursday\u2019s talks, adding that negotiations will continue on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>With just days to go before the end-of-year deadline, Downing Street opted for a more pessimistic tone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The prime minister repeated that little time was left,&#8221; a spokesman for the British PM said. &#8220;He said that, if no agreement could be reached, the UK and the EU would part as friends, with the UK trading with the EU on Australian-style terms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Australia doesn\u2019t have a free trade deal with the bloc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/brexit-some-progress-more-gaps-as-uk-eu-race-to-lock-down-trade-deal\/a-55981170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.dw.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DW &#8211; December 18, 2020 Leaders from Britain and the European Commission did not take an overly optimistic tone following talks late Thursday over a trade deal that would keep the UK from crashing out of a transition period with the EU without a deal in place. President of the European Commission Ursula von der &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/brexit-some-progress-more-gaps-as-uk-eu-race-to-lock-down-trade-deal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brexit: Some progress, more gaps as UK, EU race to lock down trade deal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4353,161,196,197,28,248,158,3966],"class_list":["post-19244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-watching","tag-boris-johnson","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19246,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19244\/revisions\/19246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}