Jean-Claude Juncker rings a bell to signal the start of a meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels, where plans are being drawn up to ensure “basic connectivity” in the event of no-deal VIRGINIA MAYO/APAir travel chaos and dramatic queues at ports would follow a no-deal Brexit under proposals published by the European Commission today. The plans aim for a soft landing for the EU but the bloc has ruled out any “mini-deals” to cushion British business. If parliament fails to ratify Theresa May’s withdrawal treaty before the UK leaves the EU then widespread aviation and trade disruption is expected. British airlines would no longer be allowed to land and transit in the EU before travelling on to non-European countries although they would be permitted to “fly across the territory of the union without landing”. Air transport services with landings in the EU will be restricted to “any pair of points of which one is situated in the territory…

Source: The Times December 19, 2018 12:00 UTC