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Brexit: Keep Talking
The ninth round of negotiations concluded on October 2. As usual, the two negotiation teams subsequently produced a statement to provide their version of events. There were no major differences in tone or substance relative to their previous statements. The statement by the UK’s negotiator David Frost can be found here; the statement by the EU’s negotiator Barnier can be found here. The UK says that there has been ‘some limited progress’ on state aid, but that the gap on fisheries was ‘very large’; the EU sees some familiar ‘points of convergence’ as well as ‘persistent serious divergences’ on the ... (full story)