As the negotiations about a post-Brexit trade agreement continue, level playing field provisions and their enforcement remain the central stumbling block. However, the EU’s position has continued to shift away from earlier ideas of “dynamic alignment” and its upfront enforcement through independent regulatory authorities in the UK (akin to the European Commission). This should bode well for a deal, both because it is in line with the UK’s insistence on greater sovereignty after Brexit and because the EU’s factual movement on these questions may allow PM Boris Johnson to point to so
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