Post-Brexit trade negotiations will be ‘uncharted waters’, Hogan warns
EU trade commissioner talks down prospect of free-trade agreement being reached by the end of next year
Phil Hogan, the European Union’s trade chief, has signalled that post-Brexit Britain and the EU would struggle to reach a free-trade agreement before the end of next year.
The intervention by the former Fine Gael minister highlights the risk of British commercial ties with the bloc being severed in a disruptive way.
“We have no accurate way to predict how long it will take to negotiate a deal with the UK because there is no ...