{"id":23066,"date":"2020-12-10T12:59:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T12:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=23066"},"modified":"2020-12-10T12:59:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T12:59:28","slug":"brexit-eu-sets-out-plans-in-case-trade-talks-with-uk-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2020\/12\/10\/brexit-eu-sets-out-plans-in-case-trade-talks-with-uk-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: EU sets out plans in case trade talks with UK fail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The EU has published contingency plans in case of the possible collapse of Brexit trade talks with the UK.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The plans aim to ensure basic UK-EU air and road travel, as well as allowing the possibility of fishing access to each other’s waters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They come after\u00a0talks between UK PM Boris Johnson and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen\u00a0aimed at ending a deadlock over the deal ended without agreement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The UK is due to stop following EU trading rules on 31 December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The UK left the EU at the end of January this year, but a transition period of 11 months followed to allow the two sides to try to negotiate a deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What is in the EU’s contingency plans?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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A European Commission statement published on Thursday morning said there was currently “significant uncertainty” about whether a deal would be in place by 1 January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Our responsibility is to be prepared for all eventualities, including not having a deal in place,” Ms von der Leyen said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Some sectors would be disproportionately affected, the commission said, adding that it was proposing four contingency measures “to mitigate some of the significant disruptions” if a deal were not in place:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EU has published contingency plans in case of the possible collapse of Brexit trade talks with the UK. The plans aim to ensure basic UK-EU air and road travel, as well as allowing the possibility of fishing access to each other’s waters. They come after talks between UK PM Boris Johnson and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen aimed at ending a deadlock over the deal ended without agreement. The UK is due to stop following EU trading rules on 31 December. The UK left the EU at the end of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23068,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23066\/revisions\/23068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}