German eurocrat insists Brexit free trade deal WON’T HAPPEN
Mr Caspary of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade suggested the UK’s divorce with the EU would take longer than Theresa May’s two year timeline and the length of time its taken to pass Article 50 highlighted how long the overall process would take.
Speaking on World at One on BBC Radio 4, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany party member said: “I don’t see any free trade agreement between the European Union and Great Britain because we normally do trade agreements with countries who want to work closer together with us and not want to get divorced.
“The second thing is before the British complain about possible duration of negotiations, of course negotiations have always two sides, so there’s a British side and a European side and the next thing is it now took us nine months for the British to hand in this letter to formally say ‘we want to leave the European Union’.