Time is running out to find agreement on areas such as tuition fees EU citizens would pay in Britain and rules for food safety
The EU is hoping to urgently reboot talks on the “reset” of relations with the UK as negotiations are in danger of foundering before a planned July summit.
At a public meeting of the EU-UK parliamentary partnership assembly in Brussels, the European Commission vice-president and trade commissioner, Maroš Šefčovič, said both sides had to “change gears” now to ensure the deal got over the line.
Deadlock over the tuition fees EU citizens would pay in a proposed youth mobility scheme is a major challenge, he said, while the UK’s trade minister, Chris Bryant, said that talks on a sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement was tricky because of the amount of legislation needed in the British parliament.
Šefčovič told the MPs and MEPs on Monday that finding agreement before the next summit – pencilled in for early July – was “very ambitious”.
