EU, UK parliaments sidelined as Brexit talks drag

Officials concede that parliaments will have little time to scrutinize and ratify any potential agreement.

[...] "Irresponsible and bitter," Bernd Lange, a German MEP who is chairman of the International Trade Committee, tweeted after Johnson and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who had promised a firm decision on Sunday, instead announced that negotiations would continue. "Serious ratification is becoming increasingly impossible."[...]