EU pours cold water over UK Brexit fake news: EU ‘protected’ from no-deal Brexit, Brussels insists

Brussels has hit back at claims the EU is unprepared to cope with the fallout of a no-deal Brexit, rejecting a report from Britain’s largest employer organisation that suggested the bloc was even less ready than the UK to withstand a chaotic departure.

In a report today, the CBI had claimed that the EU had taken “fewer steps to reduce the damage of no-deal than the UK has, having taken a noticeably less generous, more limited approach to reducing the disruption of no-deal”.

Annika Breidthardt, a spokeswoman for the European Commission, rejected the CBI report, insisting that Brussels had “done our work; we are prepared”.

“We continue to believe an orderly Brexit is the best outcome for all” she said. “Our no-deal preparedness protects the EU.” 

Brussels has spent the past year ramping up its no-deal Brexit preparations with a series of emergency laws designed to mitigate the impact on EU businesses and citizens in limited number of areas such as transport rights and fishermen’s access to fishing waters.

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