EU trade chief says it's impossible to agree Brexit trade deal in 2020 - Business Insider

The EU's trade chief warns that Boris Johnson's plan for a comprehensive UK-EU trade deal by the end of 2020 is "just not possible."

Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, has also warned that London's goal of securing a full free trade deal in 2020 was unrealistic. LONDON — The EU's trade chief has warned that Boris Johnson's pledge to deliver a full free trade deal with the EU by the end of 2020 is "just not possible."

"Certainly by the end of the year, we are not going to get everything that's in the 36-page document about the future relationship agreed," he told a panel at a Global Counsel trade conference in London. "How we manage this politically between [the UK and EU] we are certainly open to suggestions, but I think the wisest thing to do is that we should not pencil ourselves into timelines again," he said.

AdamBienkov Phil Hogan never achieved anything as a minister in Ireland which is why he was put out to grass in a cushy job in the EU. So he has a history of lacking ambition.

AdamBienkov Bloody remoaners

hasn't he got a trade deal for Northern Ireland hasn't he got a trade deal for Scotland but he hasn't got a trade deal for England has he got a trade deal for the UK

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