[News] Johnson admits UK is heading for no-deal Brexit

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For her part, Ursula von der Leyen assures that the EU continues working to reach an agreement on the relationship with the United Kingdom after the 'Brexit', "but not at any price".

 

Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, assured this Friday that it is time to "prepare" for the possibility that the United Kingdom and the European Union will not seal any trade agreement on the scheduled date, something that he sees plausible if there is no "change fundamental "in the position of the community bloc.
 

London had already shown its disappointment at the summons of European leaders for the Johnson government to take the initiative and unblock the negotiations. The British 'premier' had set October 15 as the deadline to assess whether there was sufficient progress on the future commercial relationship or the failure of the negotiations was assumed.

However, Johnson on Friday avoided taking anything for granted and instead put back on the table that the no-deal breakup remains a real possibility. The UK head of government has lamented that the EU leaders' summit "has apparently explicitly ruled out a Canada-style deal."

"If there is not a fundamental change of approach, we will go towards a solution like Australia's", which does not have a trade framework and fundamentally bases its relations with the EU on the "basic principles" of the World Trade Organization ( WTO), except in specific agreements, has stated.
 

"We always knew that there would be changes on January 1, regardless of what the relationship was," added Johnson, confident in the ability of the United Kingdom to "prosper" as an "independent nation" in terms of free trade, regardless of what that may or may not agree with the EU.
 

The new message from the British 'premier' coincides with the meeting of the EU heads of state and government, who on Thursday, after being informed by the European negotiator, Michel Barnier, of the lack of progress on key issues, published a text of conclusions in which they advocate to continue negotiating "the next few weeks", but criticize the immobility and urge London to take steps to get out of the deadlock.
 

However, the reference to "intensifying" the efforts to reach an agreement disappeared from the declaration of the presidents, despite the fact that this expression appeared in the first drafts but that finally the leaders decided to suppress, thus reducing the sense of urgency.

According to the European diagnosis, there has been no rapprochement since contacts began on any of the three essential issues for the EU: Guarantees that British companies will follow the same competition rules as European companies, robust governance for compliance of the agreements and allow the Community fleet access to British waters.

Brussels insists that it continues to work
 

For her part, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission (EC), has ensured that the EU continues to work to reach an agreement on the relationship with the United Kingdom after Brexit. "The EU continues to work in favor of an agreement, but not at any price," German politics wrote on Twitter.