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Politico (2 December 2020)

EU member states on Tuesday (1 December) warned European negotiators not to lose their nerve in negotiations with Britain, in a rare reproach as post-Brexit talks entered their most delicate phase.

Negotiations in London towards an EU-UK deal are deadlocked — with some in Brussels now seeing Thursday as a last chance to decide whether a deal is possible before 1 January, when Britain will no longer be bound by EU rules.

Failure to clinch a deal would cause deep economic disruption between the two sides, and pressure is high to finalise a zero tariffs, zero quotas accord, especially given the problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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