With a hard end-of-year deadline looming, the U.K. and the European Union will continue negotiations to try to avoid a no-deal Brexit, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Sunday.
Taking the podium at EU headquarters in Brussels, Von der Leyen said that despite the lack of any breakthrough, talks to determine the two sides’ future trading relationship would continue. Von der Leyen said she had a “constructive and useful phone call” with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in which they discussed “major unsolved topics.”
She didn’t go into detail, but sticking points have included fishing rights, fair competition rules and mechanisms for resolving trade disputes.
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