{"id":97887,"date":"2020-12-24T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97887"},"modified":"2020-12-24T07:23:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T12:23:54","slug":"ft-britain-and-eu-poised-to-announce-christmas-eve-brexit-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97887","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Britain and EU poised to announce Christmas Eve Brexit deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain and the EU were last night finalising a historic post-Brexit deal that will define their future trading relationship, reducing the risk of the UK crashing chaotically out of the European single market on January 1.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson, UK prime minister, is expected to confirm the deal early on Christmas Eve after a flurry of last-minute talks in Brussels, bringing an end to nine months of tense negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>EU and UK officials worked through Wednesday night to finalise the legal text, which will preserve tariff-free trade in goods between the EU and UK as well as protect co-operation in other areas such as security.<\/p>\n<p>People briefed on the talks said that the ongoing work included fine-tuning the details of agreements struck on Wednesday on EU fishing rights in UK waters. But officials on both sides said the terms of the post-Brexit relationship were essentially settled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4993212f-25c8-479e-83d6-f7db3731d1be\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Britain and EU poised to announce Christmas Eve Brexit deal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fmBNRZkZ7m\">https:\/\/t.co\/fmBNRZkZ7m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Financial Times (@FT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FT\/status\/1341913645412999171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain and the EU were last night finalising a historic post-Brexit deal that will define their future trading relationship, reducing the risk of the UK crashing chaotically out of the European single market on January 1. Boris Johnson, UK prime<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97887\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,168,200,144,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97889,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97887\/revisions\/97889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}