The Divorce

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The UK officially leave the Union on 31 January, but by the end of 2020 you will be. after a resignation of the contract

The European Parliament has a difficult starting position for talks with Britain over the future relations of the EU

the deputies to the UK-impact of EU policy on a wide variety of areas, such as The Price for an ambitious free-trade deal.

These range from chemical regulation to Climate Change , food labelling and subsidies for companies.

That should have been introduced with "a view to dynamic Alignment " - Code for the UK adoption of European rules, such as you.

The far-reaching resolution also called for measures to ensure That Brexit lead to gender discrimination, for a crackdown on tax havens with links to the UK, and for a joint UK-EU position at the upcoming UN climate conference in Glasgow in November.

As the language of the EU toughened-up

It is an attempt to influence the detailed instructions for the EU chief negotiator, Michel Barnier - "the mandate", is currently being discussed by the European Commission and the governments of the 27 EU member States.

It is also the latest example of the mandate as a toughened-up, how it happened from institution to institution in the EU.

If Mr Barnier published a first draft at the beginning of February, there was no talk of Alignment , and definitely not The Automatic kind.

Then arose a new version That had been tweaked, from diplomats from national governments.

It had additional references to the need for a "level playing Field " - Commitments by the UK to fair economic competition, in order to prevent European companies That undercut their British rivals. And these obligations would need to develop over time.

A reference to "building on" existing access to British waters for European fishing boats, which has been updated to "defense".

The British participation in the satellite navigation system Galileo was down could be downgraded from "should" to". "

And now, the deputies have gone further than any other.

What is the European Parliament in the hope to achieve?

"It means That we can be, Bad Cop ," said a senior member of the European Parliament 's new UK co-ordination group. "Michel Barnier , the may say, to London, the Parliament does not accept to do certain things, because. "

This is a tactic That Mr Barnier is practically guaranteed to use. And he will the European Parliament take the views into account, because it is likely to employ a vote on whatever emerges from the discussions with the United Kingdom.

the deputies were not willing to speak out against The Divorce , but they will be harder, if it touches a free-trade agreement, the values of Europe and the social model?

now the focus is on the open approval of the EU position to be completed at a meeting of European Ministers on 25. February. This is not about the ambitions at the start, the compromises at the end.

It is also about the design of the terms of the discussion with the UK before it has even begun.

the deputies and the whole of the EU know That if you don't ask, you don't get.

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Source of news: bbc.com