With the five-week closure of the UK Parliament, the highly entertaining sessions of
the House of Commons have been adjourned. Could this artificial breathing space
provide a realistic opportunity to deliver the now infamous ‘alternative customs
arrangements’, making the backstop unnecessary? And without the backstop, could the
Withdrawal Agreement be ratified soon, opening at long last the way to genuine negotiations
about the treaty on the future relations between the UK and the EU-27 (based on the Political
Declaration, a kind of MoU on these negotiations)
