Throwing overboard Sunday s self-imposed deadline, the European Union and Britain said they will go the extra mile to clinch a post-Brexit trade agreement that would avert New Year s chaos and cost for cross-border commerce.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had set Sunday as the deadline for a breakthrough or breakdown in negotiations. But they stepped back from the brink because there was too much at stake not to make an ultimate push. Despite the exhaustion after almost a year of negotiations and despite the fact that deadlines have been missed over and over, we both think it is responsible at this point in time to go the extra mile, von der Leyen said.
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