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A deal has been reached.
Bilateral trade deal worth £668bn or more, a year.

From What I gather (about the two worse issues they had):

Fishing:
UK goes from haveing 50% of fish in its waters, to about 66%, and after a transition periode of 5,5 years, it will be renegotiated.
UK would need those years, to invest in more fishing fleets, to catch more fish anyways.

Free-Trade-Agreement:
UK agreed to following stuff like equal playing field, and EU rules & standards, will be respected.
(subsidies, tax, workers’ rights, environment standards... ect ect)
There are effective tools, to react with if fair competition is distorted and impacts trade.
(ei. Tarifs will be put on, if UK is found to breaching it)

Ireland: 
The big winners, with a FTA in place, all this border issue stuff is basically gone.
(border controll (the troubles, good friday agreement ect), and tarifs would have really hurt them)

continue operating on (area's of mutual interest):
climate change, energy, security and transport.


Seems EU was very "gentle" with the UK, and didnt really screw themover.
This is just my first impression from watching Boris talking about it live atm.

Ofc this is supposedly 2000 *500+ pages long..... it 'll be a while until we the public know exactly what is in it.

*edit:
Still cant believe how UK acted, and then how decently the EU treated them, dispite it all.

Last edited by JRPGfan - on 24 December 2020