Fresh leak suggests EU 'will demand UK accepts new rules from Brussels during Brexit transition'
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EU chiefs want Britain to automatically accept new regulations from Brussels during the two-year transition period after Brexit, it has been reported.
A leaked document reveals the demands from EU negotiators in the next stage of the Brexit negotiations, according to the Independent.
The proposals would leave the UK subject to new rules it has no ability to influence and are likely to enrage Brexit supporters in Britain who want no new regulations imposed during the transition.
The Independent obtained a presentation drawn up by the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier for the remaining 27 member states.
It says any transition period for the UK must involve the “automatic application in the UK of new EU rules post-30 March 2019”.
And it adds that Britain would have “no institutional rights”, “no presence in the institutions” and no “voting rights” under the plan.
Mr Barnier has already said the UK would have to continue following existing EU rules during a transition - but the spectre of accepting new rules is yet to be broached.
The leak piles pressure on Theresa May, who hopes the EU will agree that “sufficient progress” has been made on the first key negotiation issues so that talks can move onto trade at a summit next month.
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