Michel Barnier 'worried and disappointed' over Brexit talks impasse

EU negotiator says UK refusing to put proposals on the table on state aid or fisheries

The EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has said he is worried and disappointed" over the UK's approach to the talks, fuelling fears that the UK will leave the bloc in January without a deal.

He said there was no breakthrough at a meeting on Tuesday with the UK's negotiator, David Frost. We didn't see any change in the position of the UK, which is why I expressed publicly what I say, that I am worried and I am disappointed because, frankly speaking, we have moved, [and] shown in many issues real openness in the past months," Barnier told the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin.