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| Brexit: Boris Johnson to hold crunch EU-UK meeting next week | |
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| Boris Johnson will hold post-Brexit trade talks with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen via video link on Monday next week. | Boris Johnson will hold post-Brexit trade talks with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen via video link on Monday next week. |
| The UK and EU have said no major progress has been made towards a deal after four rounds of talks this year. | The UK and EU have said no major progress has been made towards a deal after four rounds of talks this year. |
| Both sides are due to decide by the end of June whether the current deadline for negotiating a deal should be extended beyond the end of December. | Both sides are due to decide by the end of June whether the current deadline for negotiating a deal should be extended beyond the end of December. |
| The UK has said it will not agree to an extension, even if the EU requests one. | The UK has said it will not agree to an extension, even if the EU requests one. |
| A UK government spokesman said both sides had also agreed an "intensified" schedule of weekly talks throughout the month of July. | |
| This will involve a mix of formal negotiating rounds and smaller group meetings in London and Brussels, if coronavirus guidelines allow, he added. | |
| European Council President Charles Michel and European Parliament President David-Maria Sassoli will also take part in the video call on Monday. | European Council President Charles Michel and European Parliament President David-Maria Sassoli will also take part in the video call on Monday. |
| The meeting comes after EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said there had been "no significant areas of progress" at last week's negotiating round. | |
| Likewise his UK counterpart David Frost said progress "remains limited," and negotiators were "reaching the limits" of what could be achieved in formal talks. | |
| Differences between the two sides remain on fisheries, competition rules, police co-operation, and how a deal would be enforced. |