Britain Must Surrender Sovereignty for EU Trade Deal

by Louise Mclean

Last week Germany's Ambassador in Brussels, Michael Clauß, said that the UK must give up some sovereignty in order to have a free trade deal with the European Union.  He said: "The UK cannot have full sovereignty and full access to the EU internal market".

Germany is due to take over from Croatia, the six month rotating presidency of the European Union on 1st July 2020, when there will be two main aims: to get the EU's Covid recovery fund in place and get Brexit talks back on track.

The EU is apparently now reconciled to there being no extension past 31st December, so a trade deal needs to be struck in the next 6 months and the focus will be to have this in place by September or October.

The EU has been appraised of the fact that having an extension would mean the Withdrawal Treaty would need rewriting or new one created in order to extend by a single day, which would be very difficult.

Without a change to UK statute law it would be impossible for Boris to agree to sign a document for extension, as this is currently forbidden under UK law.

Boris Johnson is due to take part in a high level meeting with Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel on 19th June, when presumably more pressure will be put on him to agree to the EU's terms.

Rather ominously, the Daily Telegraph ran an article saying that the 27 member states will refuse to take back illegal immigrants crossing the channel to Britain, unless Britain backs down in the trade talks giving the EU more of what it is demanding.

It should have been easy to persuade them, as currently most EU countries are going through economic recessions after the Covid pandemic, and will not want any more people to house and feed.

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