The UK-EU future relationship negotiations: summary of positions

The tables in the attached paper provide a summary of the UK and EU positions in the future relationship negotiations, based on publicly available documents and statements

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European Union, Disaster preparedness, Negotiation, Brexit withdrawal agreement, Brexit, Brexit negotiations, United Kingdom, Events, United Kingdom invocation of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union
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  • The tables in the attached paper provide a summary of the UK and EU positions in the future relationship negotiations, based on publicly available documents and statements

    The EU and UK agreed a Political Declaration (PD) setting out the framework for the future EU-UK relationship, alongside the Withdrawal Agreement (WA), on 17 October 2019.

  • This elaborated on positions previously set out in a House of Commons written statement by the Prime Minister on 3 February.
  • The UK and EU positions going into the negotiations were summarised in the House of Commons Library briefing paper 8834, The UK-EU future relationship negotiations: process and issues.
  • The European Commission published a draft future relationship treaty on 18 March which provides more clarity and detail on its position.
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