S5 Ep16: Director’s Cut: Options yet open for a Brexit deal

The final act of the Brexit negotiations is upon us, with many
questions still seemingly unresolved and the future relationship
between the EU and the UK yet uncertain.


The EU remains unyielding on compromising the integrity of the
single market, with the UK struggling to propose an agreement
suitable both for the EU as well as its own nuanced internal
political situation.


With the numbers delicately balanced in the UK’s House of
Commons, whose MPs have to ratify the final deal, the subtlest
shifts in positions and proposals have the potential to
constitute serious stumbling blocks on the road to an agreement.


Joining Bruegel’s Maria Demertzis for this Director’s Cut of ‘The
Sound of Economics’ is Robin Niblett, director of the Chatham
House institute in London. Together they run through what has
already been agreed, what sticking points remain to be got past,
and how the two sides might yet reach a deal that suits them
both.


For further reading, we recommend our blog post, written by Maria
Demertzis and André Sapir, outlining the basic options for the
future relationship of the EU and the UK, how they might be
negotiated upon, and which would suit each side the best.