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EUROPEAN Unions chief negotiator Michel Barnier says an urgent meeting with the Council of Ministers will be held this week with an aim to complete the draft withdrawal agreement.
“Before that, tomorrow, I will be meeting ministers from 27 members states during general affairs council and will be meeting Brexit steering group of EU parliament .
He added Friday was the most important part of the week, where the council of ministers - made up of government ministers from each of the 27 member states, will “assess and judges” the state of talks.
Brexit Secretary David Davis said that the agreement represented a significant step on ensuring a time-limited implementation period after Brexit which would deliver the certainty demanded by business.
Mr Barnier said there were still outstanding issues relating to the Irish border. He said: We are not at the end of the road and there is a lot of work still to be done.
The EU says a border between the Republic of Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland would be unavoidable since London has said it will also be leaving the blocs single market and customs union.
But UK negotiators are said to be anxious that a hard-line Franco-German alliance with Ireland could yet scupper a transition deal.
There is mounting concern Dublin, Berlin and Paris could still try and use the Irish border to halt any agreement with Mr Davis.
The Brexit Secretary is in Brussels amid warnings from senior Tories that the UK must be allowed to formally sign trade deals during any transition period.
Britain will become a joke nation if the EU stops it agreeing new trading terms outside the bloc as it withdraws, Jacob Rees-Mogg claimed.
Mr Davis is in Brussels to thrash out details of transition arrangements that would come into force when Britain leaves in March 2019.
The Brexit Secretary has said he can live with an implementation period of under two years if it helps to secure an early deal.
Prime Minister Theresa May will head to Brussels on Thursday for a meeting of the European Council where she is hoping a deal on the arrangements will be signed off.
In an article for The Daily Telegraph Mr Rees-Mogg, who chairs the Brexit supporting Conservative European Research Group, wrote: Britain has to decide if it is a serious country or a joke nation.
It would be humiliating for others to have cause to think thus of us.
The United Kingdom will not accept being a subservient state.
In the case of tariffs, once we have left the EU, it is non-negotiable that our trade minister should be able to respond to any threat of increased tariffs from other nations as suits our national interest, not the EUs.
We must be able to negotiate and sign trade deals.
Yet this does not depend just on our legal ability to do so.
It depends on how other countries view us.
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