Negotiations on the UK’s post-Brexit relationship with the EU will start on 3 March, more than a month after the UK’s departure from the bloc, the Guardian can reveal. The UK is due to leave the EU on Friday at midnight central European time – nearly four years since the referendum. Once the talks on the future relationship start in earnest on 3 March, it will be access to fishing waters and the EU’s demand for a “level playing field” that are likely to pose the biggest obstacles to success. If there is no level playing field or fair conditions, the trade openness of the EU will not be total. So, if Boris Johnson wants a deal in 11 months with zero quotas and zero tariffs, we must have guarantees of zero dumping and therefore of a level playing field.

Source: The Guardian January 28, 2020 12:19 UTC