It’s up to the UK to break the Brexit deadlock, despite the potential economic hit to France and the EU from a no-deal outcome when the transition period ends on December 31. So says France’s newly-appointed Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune. He tells FRANCE 24’s Europe editor Catherine Nicholson that neither France nor the EU as a whole is prepared to depart from the commitments of the Political Declaration agreed between Brussels and Boris Johnson in 2019.
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