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For any copyright, please send me a message. On Monday both sides will meet in Brussels to formally kick off talks on a post-Brexit free trade agreement. Mr Johnson has threatened to tear up the political declaration attached to his Brexit deal, which lays out the ground rules for a trade pact. The government said it would walk away from talks on future ties with the EU if “good progress” was not made in the negotiations by June. It also underlined that its goal was to gain political and economic independence from the bloc. On Friday, France’s Europe minister said the bloc would not accept “artificial deadlines” in talks on a future relationship with Britain, urging London to be led by reason in the negotiations. Britain left the EU last month and the two sides have until the end of the year to negotiate a trade deal. Within the timeframe, they aim to reach agreements on everything from fishing to transport, to replace more than 40 years of closely aligned relations. But before talks begin next week in Brussels, both sides are far apart on several key issues. Amelie de Montchalin, Emmanuel Macron’s European affairs minister visited London this week. She told an audience at the Chatham House think-tank: “We do not accept time pressure and we are not ready to sign any kind of a deal on 31st December at 11pm. “We cannot let our level of ambition be affected by what I can call artificial deadlines. “If the UK decides to shorten the negotiation period, it will be the UK’s responsibility. “It will not be our choice on the European side and that choice will have consequences in terms of the breadth and depth of the relationship we can build.” Both sides say they want a deal to be agreed before the end of the year. Mr Johnson has said he is not willing to request an extension to the deadline. Ms de Montchalin said she believed that was possible if there was an understanding of what could be achieved in that time. She appealed to London to apply “reason” to the talks, warning Britain not to try to pursue a strategy of divide and rule with the 27-member EU. “You should not underestimate the unity of the 27,” she said. “To those who might think that the EU’s unity might falter in the next phase of talks, let me say you are in for the opposite. “Our shared interest I think, from now on is not to show our muscles but is to work together, not with passion but with reason.” Businesses have demanded clarity and called for friction in trade with the EU to be kept to a minimum after the UK set out its blueprint for talks with Brussels. Trending The Confederation of British Industry’s director-general Dame Carolyn Fairbairn said firms recognised the “sense of purpose and direction” of the governmen
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