December 24, 2020
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union ambassadors will meet at 10:30am CET on Friday, Christmas Day, to begin reviewing the post-Brexit trade deal clinched on Thursday by the EU and Britain, an EU spokesman said.
“The German EU Council Presidency has just convened a COREPER meeting for tomorrow 10.30am. EU Ambassadors will start reviewing the EU-UK agreement,” an EU spokesman for Germany, which holds the bloc’s rotating presidency, said on Twitter. COREPER is the name given to meetings of EU envoys.
The EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier will provide a briefing on the EU-UK negotiations, he said.
(Reporting by Kate Abnett, editing by Marine Strauss)
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