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The EU “is not going to be rushed” on a commerce cope with the UK after Brexit, based on Eire’s deputy PM.
Boris Johnson says a deal will be agreed by the top of 2020 and has included a pledge in his Brexit invoice to not prolong any transition interval to safe one.
However Simon Coveney says it’s “in all probability going to take longer than a yr”.
Safety Minister Brandon Lewis defended Mr Johnson’s deadline, saying he had a “sturdy document of getting issues completed”.
The PM’s Brexit invoice was supported by MPs within the Commons earlier this week and can now head to the Home of Lords earlier than turning into regulation.
However opposition MPs have raised issues concerning the exhausting deadline, saying it creates one other approach of the UK leaving and not using a deal.
Talking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme, Mr Coveney mentioned he accepted the UK was leaving the EU on the finish of January, and he hoped for the longer term deal to “obtain the closest potential relationship” between the 2 sides.
However he warned there was “no approach of the UK… sustaining the identical relationship we have now as we speak whereas exterior the European Union,” including: “That’s the actuality of Brexit, I am afraid.”
Mr Coveney mentioned Mr Johnson had “set a really formidable timetable” in his invoice.
“Simply because a British parliament decides that British regulation says one thing does not imply that regulation applies to the opposite 27 nations of the European Union,” he added.
“The European Union will method this on the idea of getting one of the best deal potential, a good and balanced deal, to make sure the UK and the EU can work together as associates sooner or later.
“However the EU is not going to be rushed on this simply because Britain passes regulation.”
The deputy PM (Tanaiste) mentioned the EU had “continually warned [Mr Johnson’s] timeframe is formidable, if not unrealistic”.
He added: “From an EU perspective, we are going to attempt to method all of those actually essential and delicate areas with a way of partnership and friendship.
“However on the identical time, they’re advanced… [and] for my part, it’s in all probability going to take longer than a yr. However we must wait and see.”