France's minister for Europe, Clement Beaune warned that if talks between the European Union and Britain over the protocol failed there will be measures against the UK. Speaking on Saturday he told Radio France: Discussion without pressure is naive.
If dialogue is not successful with the British, there will be measures which restrict our cooperation in areas important to them. Commenting on this website, a reader with the username AlphaSilk wrote: Who does he think he is? Another reader, QualityCounts, commented: EU Threats, threats, threats. How would any one choose to start a project using threats? A third, user Gooseiscooked said: Hard to imagine how EU is more intolerant to the UK than it already is. A fifth, theraven, wrote: The EU is stiff of the UK, who would have thought we will never return to the EU no matter what rubbish remoaners go on about, perpetual threats, yes the agreement that May negotiated was rubbish because the political elite and the labour Party did everything they could to make things difficult for the UK negotiation team. It comes as UK Brexit minister Maros Sefcovic arrived at the European Commission in Brussels on Friday for talks with Vice President Lord Frost on the protocol. READ MORE: UK looks at 9.25 billion deal for Brexit as Mexico opens talks on trade with the UK.
EU facing two key problems to continued existence Former Brexit Party MEP destroys EU for border staff in protocol rant VIDEO Brexit trade deal warning as UK industry bodies give key demand input He said: So I think the EU has definitely made an effort to push beyond where they typically go in these areas and we're quite encouraged by that, but there is still quite a big gap and that's what we have to work through today and in the future. Lord Frost said the role of the ECJ in policing the protocol will be an issue in Mr Sefcovic's discussions. The governance arrangements like we have them don't work - we need to take the court out of the system as it is now and we need to find a better way forward, said he.