UK stance on Irish border threatens to stall Brexit talks: Tusk

Hammond says free trade deal must include financial services

Hammond says free trade deal must include financial services

She said that she understood that this would involve abiding by the rules of the EMA and "making an appropriate financial contribution". "We must ensure our market is not now destabilised by millions of tonnes of steel diverted away from the U.S.to the E.U. We trust and hope that the United Kingdom government will support such measures in due course", said its director Gareth Stace.

"We are discussing these issues with the UK Government but it remains unclear as to how much discussion is underway in Europe". During a speech to the British Chamber of Commerce, Arlene Foster, the leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), attacked the EU's hardening stance on both trade and the Irish border. "So we will be firm on this", he added.

But just before Hammond spoke, Brussels offered a free trade agreement that falls well short of Hammond's plans, saying Britain's banks and insurers would get the same treatment as rivals from other non-EU countries and only get limited access. Services are about common rules, common supervision, and common enforcement.

The secretary of state for global trade also echoed the charge of allegedly thuggish behaviour by Brussels, criticising the argument of Donald Tusk and others that British trade access must be worse than the status quo after leaving the EU.

"If in London someone assumes that the negotiations will deal with other issues first, before moving to the Irish issue, my response would be: Ireland first".

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Britain has said it does not want to see any return to a hard border between British-ruled Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, an European Union member.

"However, we must have certainty that if a better option proves unachievable, the backstop of maintaining full alignment in Northern Ireland with the rules of the single market will apply, in order to protect the North's co-operation and avoid a hard border."
However, the proposal and its apparent inherent contradictions - in the context of the ongoing EU/UK negotiations - may not provide enough clarity to allow pan-EU companies sufficient confidence in the post-Brexit landscape to put their contingency planning on hold.

Tusk also dashed UK's hope to include financial services in the future relation agreement, as demanded by UK's chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond on Wednesday.

"I fully respect the Chancellor's competence in defining what's in the UK's interest". "The E.U. must not allow the moderate recovery in our industry over the past year to be destroyed by the E.U.'s most important ally", said a Tata Steel Europe spokesperson at the time. As you know, every country has its own problems resulting from Brexit.

The UK's Prime Minister last week singled out the European Union pharmaceuticals regulatory regime as one in which the UK could continue to participate post Brexit. Having UK courts decide over matters that can influence the parameters in which EMA scientific assessments take place may simply be a deal-breaker for the EU.

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