EU fully determined to reach agreement with UK: Spokesperson

Brussels, Nov 17 : The European Union (EU) is “100 per cent determined to reach an agreement” with the UK on their future relations, despite a presumed deadline drawing closer, a spokesperson for the bloc said.
On Monday, Daniel Ferrie told a European Commission briefing that the negotiations will continue in Brussels on all subjects, reports Xinhua news agency.
Among the topics that remained open were fisheries, on which “there is still a great deal of divergences”.
The UK is supposed to formally leave the bloc by December 31, 2020, and the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said an agreement needs to be reached by mid-November as it takes weeks to finalize the paperwork.
However, Barnier remains confident that the task could be fulfilled.
“With the European Parliament and all the Member States, we remain determined, patient, respectful. We want our future cooperation to be open but fair in all areas,” he tweeted on Monday.