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.
‘It’s up to the UK to move’ on Brexit, France’s Europe minister says
