EU to set out guidelines for trade talks BREXIT

Politics 16:26 07.03.2018
European Council President Donald Tusk is unveiling the EU's approach to the next phase of Brexit talks on future relations with the UK.
 
The strategy must be signed off by EU leaders at a summit later this month before talks can begin.
 
It comes as Chancellor Philip Hammond calls for financial services to be included in any future trade agreement.
 
The EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has argued that such a deal had never been done before.
But Mr Hammond will say in a speech that the EU has in the past attempted similar agreements, such as in trade talks with the US and Canada.
 
"If it could be done with Canada or the USA... it could be done with the UK," he will say.
 
"I am clear not only that it is possible to include financial services within a trade deal but that it is very much in our mutual interest to do so."
 
Mr Tusk is due to unveil the EU's draft negotiating guidelines for the next round of Brexit talks at a press conference in Luxembourg at about 12:15 GMT.
 
The leaders of the remaining 27 EU states must then approve the plans at a Brussels summit on 22 March, setting the template for Michel Barnier in trade talks that could start as soon as April.
Mr Tusk warned last week that Prime Minister Theresa May's plan to leave the single market and customs union made "frictionless" trade impossible.
 
The European Parliament has also stressed that its preferred option is for the UK to continue to be a member of the single market and customs union after Brexit, in a draft resolution, leaked to the Politico website.
 
The parliament does not have a formal role in the Brexit negotiations but does have a veto on the final deal.
 
'Red lines'
The European Parliament document, which may be changed before it is adopted later on Wednesday, says non-EU members - even if very closely aligned to the bloc - cannot expect the same rights and benefits as EU members.
 
It also warns that the UK's current "red lines" in Brexit talks "would lead to customs checks and verification which would affect global supply chains and manufacturing processes, even if tariff barriers can be avoided".
 
It says a "deep and comprehensive" trade deal, of the kind envisioned by Theresa May, must entail "a binding interpretation role" for the European Court of Justice.
 
The European Parliament resolution also warns the UK against "cherry-picking of sectors of the internal market".
 
BBC Brussels Correspondent Adam Fleming said the draft will look like a rejection of the speech Theresa May delivered on Friday setting out her vision of post-Brexit trade, but with some "wriggle room" and the possibility of much more if the UK softens some of its red lines.
 
Verhofstadt wants 100% rights guarantee
European Parliament Brexit chief Guy Verhofstadt met UK ministers in Downing Street on Tuesday for talks on the rights of EU citizens in the EU, and vice versa, after Brexit.
 
The European Parliament is due to vote on the resolution, the fourth it has issued on Brexit, next week.
 
MPs in Westminster are, meanwhile, set to debate a Plaid Cymru call for UK nationals to be allowed to keep their EU citizenship after Brexit.
 
Plaid said EU citizenship would give holders the right to travel, live, study and work anywhere in the EU even after the UK leaves next year.
 
A UK government spokesman said only citizens of EU member states could hold EU citizenship.

 

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