Keith: here is an extract from the EU draft of the December agreement: ===== called on the Commission as Union negotiator and the United Kingdom to complete the work on all withdrawal issues, including those not yet addressed in the first phase, to consolidate the results obtained, and to start drafting the relevant parts of the Withdrawal Agreement. It stressed that negotiations in the second phase can only progress as long as all commitments undertaken during the first phase are respected in full and translated faithfully into legal terms as quickly as possible ===== So the EU wants everything agreed to in December to be translated into legal terms. That is the context within which I think Tusk's comments are to be understood. I dont think there is much vakue discussing this aspect much more. By the end of March the UK will have produced a legak text OR the EU will have backed down OR fudge will have been found or there will be no agreement. In two or three weeks we will know
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