Financial Times: France’s Europe minister warns EU must be ready for no-deal Brexit

11 December 2018

France has warned that Britain will not be able to extract further concessions in Brexit talks, stressing the bloc must be ready for a no-deal scenario.

Nathalie Loiseau, France’s Europe minister, said on Tuesday she was “very worried” about the state of Brexit negotiations, adding that a no-deal outcome was now a “non-improbable hypothesis.”

Speaking on her way into a ministerial meeting in Brussels, the French minister said Paris was “very much concerned about the postponement of the vote on the withdrawal agreement” in the UK parliament.

“We’ve done a lot to help the UK”, Ms Loiseau said. “This withdrawal agreement is the only possible agreement” and “we’ve done a lot of concessions to reach it.”

Her German counterpart, Michael Roth, described the current situation as “really sad . . . not just for the people in the United Kingdom but also for us in the EU27.” [...]

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