The European Parliament has fixed Sunday as the last moment it can accept a text of any accord if MEPs are to ratify it before Britain leaves the EU single market in two weeks.
BRUSSELS: Negotiations for a post-Brexit trade deal were deadlocked and threatened by failure on Sunday, as both sides dug in their heels over access to the UK’s rich fishing waters.
The European Parliament had fixed Sunday as the last moment it could accept a text of any accord if MEPs are to ratify it before Britain leaves the EU single market in two weeks.
But both sides of the intense negotiations in Brussels now expect the talks to blow past what is only the latest in a series of missed deadlines, and both insist that the other must back down over fish.
Without a deal, Britain’s participation in the European project would end…
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