The latest negotiating round between Britain and the European Union on future ties after a post-Brexit transition period runs out at the end of 2020 brought no breakthroughs this week on the key sticking points, an EU official said on Friday.
"Nothing has moved. some technical exchanges that weren't entirely pointless but nothing noteworthy on the topics that matter," said the official, who is involved in the talks and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Persistent disagreements over state aid rules and fishing quotas have so far thwarted a deal, which the EU says must be in the making in time for approval at an Oct. 15-16 summit of the bloc's 27 national leaders to enable ratification this year.
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