EPC - Liddle: Heading for disaster
04 July 2020
The current UK-EU negotiations are heading for disaster: the probability of a ‘bare-bones’ trade deal, with some limited add-ons, is looking strong. The future relationship between the two will most probably be blighted by tensions over continual trade disputes.
Labour peer and member of the House of Lord’s European Union Select
Committee, Roger Liddle, outlines how the UK government is increasingly
fraying away from the October Political Declaration and Withdrawal
Agreement. This deviation from its signed commitments demonstrate the
Johnson administration’s seeming prioritisation of British sovereignty
and independence, at the expense of economic integration and
institutionalised cooperation.
Liddle provides a frank analysis
of both sides’ expectations and realities in a range of topics –
Northern Ireland, establishing a level playing field, the moot issue of
fisheries, security –, measuring one against another to depict a
contentious future UK-EU relationship.
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