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16 August 2017

スカイ・ニュース:離脱清算金等に関する英国・EU(欧州連合)離脱協議、独総選挙により12月にずれ込む見込み


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Sky sources say the next phase of Brexit talks is now expected to be in December as London waits for the new German government.


Cabinet ministers involved in the Brexit negotiations are privately indicating that the next phase of talks may not happen until Christmas.

This "sufficient progress" on phase-one negotiations on money, citizens and Ireland had been pencilled in for October, but looks increasingly likely to be delayed until December.

It means there will be less than a year for talks on the future trading relationship between the UK and EU, and another two months of the two-year Article 50 timetable being used up.

Sky sources have indicated that the challenge and timing of agreeing a new German government after federal elections at the end of September has meant a "more formal" engagement from Berlin than had been anticipated.

Some in the UK Government anticipate that a possible change in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition partner to the liberal Free Democrats will make the Brexit negotiations easier and "more business-like" than the current Grand Coalition.

On current polling, the FDP will re-enter the Bundestag with sufficient MPs to replace the centre-left SPD of ex-European Parliament chief and arch-federalist Martin Schulz. [...]

Full article on Sky News



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