The UK and the EU took a significant step towards resuming formal Brexit talks today after Brussels made a key concession by agreeing to “intense” discussions on legal texts.
Michel Barnier told his counterpart Lord Frost in a phone call that the EU was willing to “intensify talks in London this week, on all subjects, and based on legal texts”. He tweeted that Brussels was now awaiting the UK’s reaction.
Brussels’s refusal to engage on legal texts had been one of the two main sticking points that led Boris Johnson to call off the negotiations on Friday.
In a highly significant move for Lord Frost, Mr Barnier dropped the EU’s “parallelism” policy of refusing to discuss areas such trade in services until the UK. The Times.
