The agreement reached Thursday between London and Brussels will make it possible to preserve the United Kingdom’s access without quotas or customs duties to the single European market.
Le Monde avec AFP
Unanimously, the representatives of the Member States of the European Union (EU) gave their approval on Monday to the provisional application, from 1 January of the post-Brexit deal reached last week with the UK.
Formal adoption by governments is expected by Tuesday afternoon, tweeted German EU Presidency spokesman Sebastian Fischer. The British Parliament’s vote on the deal will take place on Wednesday. Finally, the approval of MEPs is expected in early 2021.
1,246 pages
The agreement reached Thursday between London and Brussels will allow access to be preserved without quotas or rights of UK customs to the European Single Market, which has some 450 million consumers, but will not prevent disruption and undesirable economic effects for the UK or for EU member states.
Many aspects of the future relations between the two blocs remain to be defined and this process could take years. Released by the British government on Saturday, the text includes a 1,246-page trade agreement, as well as provisions on nuclear energy and the exchange of classified information as well as a series of joint statements.