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Brexit: Little sign of progress in latest EU/UK trade talks
Jun 5, 2020
The latest UK-EU talks on a post-Brexit trade deal are coming to an end, with little sign so far of a breakthrough.
The UK has until the end of June to ask for the "transition period" - keeping it in the single market and customs union - to be extended into next year, but the government has ruled this out.
This week's talks were seen as the last chance to make progress before a crucial summit later this month.
But the two sides have been critical of each other's negotiation stance.
Businesses - hit by the coronavirus pandemic - have raised concerns over a possible "cliff-edge" break to the UK's remaining access to the EU single market at the end of the year with no replacement deal.
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And the latest four days of online talks have followed a series of testy exchanges between London and Brussels.
EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier, who is due to make a statement in Brussels later, accused the UK of backtracking on previously agreed commitments, warning the EU would not sign up to a deal "at any cost".
Downing Street responded by accusing the EU of making a series of "unbalanced" demands binding the UK to EU laws and standards to an unprecedented degree for a trade deal.
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