In an interview with German newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine, European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker said he and chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier are “doing everything possible to get an agreement” on Brexit. He warned that “if we don’t succeed in the end, the responsibility would lie exclusively on the British side.”
Juncker also said that disorderly Brexit could greatly complicate negotiations on future relationship. He said: “We will want to and need to seal a free trade agreement. But that won’t happen just like that, as some in Britain imagine. Some of the trade deals we sealed in my term of office took many years to reach.”
