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. One EU diplomat said: “We all have our own domestic political situations to deal with and so I can’t imagine us having unanimity on extending article 50. 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. 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.”