- According to officials, the UK and EU could strike a deal on their future trading and security relationship as early as next week.
- The EU is looking to maintain its current access to UK fishing waters, but the UK is taking that as an affront to its sovereignty. At some point, that surely must be resolved.
- Even if a "no deal" is unlikely, some form of a disruptive hard Brexit is inevitable.
- While Brexit will be damaging for the UK and painful for Europe, the event will now be almost irrelevant for global markets.
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Short And Sharp: Brexit - Are We There Yet?