The EU27 has ‘hardened’ the language of a proposed Brexit resolution for this week’s European Council summit in response to UK Brexit Secretary David Davis’ comments that the deal with the EU was “more a statement”, according to three EU diplomats.
Davis said the deal was “more a statement of intent than a legally enforceable thing”.
At a meeting ahead of the summit, at which EU leaders must formally sign off on the agreement with the UK that Brexit talks move on to the second phase, diplomats redrafted a summit declaration on Brexit.
The latest draft of the document now says negotiations can only progress ‘as long as all commitments undertaken during the first phase are respected in full and translated faithfully in legal terms as quickly as possible’, according to a read-out of the declaration.
