You vill be punished!

Rather an interesting twist to the Graun's report of the latest hiccup:

Dispute mechanism is key sticking point in Brexit talks, says Von der Leyen

Commission president draws attention to less well-known area where two sides are at odds

This is the odd bit that follows, though:

Ursula von der Leyen has highlighted the UK’s rejection of an all-encompassing punishment mechanism [my emphasis] to keep it true to any Brexit deal with the EU as the emerging threat to an agreement,

The EU wants a blockbuster deal [as ever] with a cross-cutting dispute mechanism covering everything from trade to transport and judicial cooperation to fisheries. A clear breach of the deal could allow either side to retaliate by suspending a part of the relationship...Downing Street has opposed the governance proposal, insisting there should be a series of separate sectoral agreements [as ever].

This is the usual clash beteen continental bureaucracy and UK pragmatism/opportunism. 

Pimmel winken with this:

Therefore, both national and European contingency planning would now have to start in order to be prepared for a no deal 2.0.”

And hints at the actual bargaining stakes:

“We put forward a proposal for the negotiating table, as we call them, on security and defence [and] foreign policy issues at large,” he [de Almeida, EU ambassador to the UK] said. “The UK has chosen not to open that table of discussion.”

Von der Leyen hinted, however, at an EU compromise on fisheries by merely seeking “guarantees and predictability” for European fleet rather than the status quo.