EU to UK: Stop Playing ‘Games’ With Brexit Trade Talks

Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office Michael Roth, left, speaks with Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok, center, and Italian Minister of European Affairs Vicenzo Amendola, right, during a meeting of the General Affairs Council at the European Council building in Brussels, on Sept. 22, 2020. Aris Oikonomou/Pool via AP Photo

BRUSSELS—The European Union is pleading with Britain to stop playing “games” as time is running out to clinch a free trade deal over the next month.

The sides committed to a new meeting to discuss Britain’s plans to disregard part of the withdrawal agreement it had signed with the 27-nation EU amid acrimony that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson would even contemplate to break an agreement he himself signed.