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Europe Furious Over Johnson's Plan to Override Brexit Agreement

Jamie Dettmer

   Brexit negotiations hit a new low this week as the European Union's top
   leaders in Brussels reacted angrily to British prime minister Boris
   Johnson's plans to override a key part of Britain's withdrawal
   agreement from the EU, which was struck only last year.

   They say any repudiation of the divorce deal will ruin the chances of a
   free-trade agreement being struck between Britain and the EU and will
   poison relations between London and Brussels for years to come.

   The British government's plan included in draft legislation published
   Wednesday, to in effect repudiate parts of the exit deal, prompted
   European leaders to complain of an "unprecedented breach of trust" and
   to warn the move could wreck current fraught negotiations dealing with
   Britain's future trade relationship with the bloc.

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