The European Union and the United Kingdom announced Thursday afternoon, Dec. 24, just before Christmas Eve, a preliminary consensus on a deal to leave the European Union. European Commission President von der Leyen praised it as a good and fair deal.
After the final sprint of hard negotiations, the European Union and the United Kingdom reached a preliminary agreement on a free trade agreement for Brexit before Christmas Eve on Thursday, December 24.
According to the agreement, British products can continue to enjoy duty-free and quota-free access to the EU common market if the UK complies with the conditions of fair competition, which are the same norms as the EU on environmental protection, social security and subsidy norms.
European Commission President Von der Leyen congratulated this as a good and balanced agreement, noting that the UK is a respected partner of the EU.
The EU’s chief negotiator for Brexit, Barnier, likewise told a press conference that reaching an agreement shows that there will be new economic and trade rules, such as air transport, road transport, fisheries and energy will be affected by this agreement.
In June 2016, four years after the British referendum on Brexit, after less than 10 months of negotiations, the EU and the UK reached a preliminary Brexit agreement to avoid the chaos of a “no-deal hard Brexit”, but still need to wait for the EU member states on the specific content of the agreement after several days of final adoption.
The French President Macron tweeted that it was a basic agreement.
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