The UK's insistence on autonomy from EU regulations and the ECJ make it ineligible as a partner, according to an EU document leaked to Politico. A draft of the EU's negotiating guidelines for Brexit talks with Britain says that "membership in the European Union is not conditional upon acceptance of all its rules. The document said: "If they want access to single market they will have to comply with EU laws.”
The UK's insistence on autonomy from EU regulations and the ECJ make it ineligible as a partner, according to an EU document leaked to Politico. The UK would have to be satisfied with a standard Free Trade Agreement, similar to the Canada-US deal of 1988. The document said: "If they want access to single market they will have to comply with EU laws.”