Demonstrating the distances that still permeate the negotiations are the words of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, according to whom the European Union would like to leave the United Kingdom as “the only country in the world not to have sovereignty over its fishing waters”. This, for the record, would be due to the fact that competence over fishing and fisheries resources is an exclusive EU competence, and access to the single market could therefore involve some form of adjustment even by the UK post-Brexit.
For the British Prime Minister, the idea that if the EU were to ‘pass a new law in the future that we do not comply with’, the EU would ‘automatically have the right to punish us and to retaliate’ remains unpalatable.
From the EU perspective, ensuring consistency between EU and British law in certain areas is essential precisely to protect competition and the integrity of the single market, as Angela Merkel herself has mentioned.
At the beginning of 2021, in fact, the UK will be out of the single market and the customs union and, without an agreement on future trade relations, duties and border controls on goods will return.
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