Brexit trade deal gets tougher as coronavirus strikes officials on both sides
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(Worthy News) – The Brexit trade deal will face greater challenges ahead as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now in intensive care because of the coronavirus, while other key negotiators have either been infected or are in self-isolation.
The U.K. finally left the European Union on Jan. 31, but it remains in a transition period and has a deadline of end 2020 to set a free-trade deal with the EU. Now, whether Britain would be able to meet that deadline is in question.
“In all circumstances it’s very difficult to imagine how some sort of large scale trade deal between the U.K. and the EU gets done by the end of the year,” Amanda Sloat, a senior fellow at Brookings Institution, told CNBC on Tuesday. [ Source: CNBC (Read More…) ]
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