Britain is preparing to spend £705m ($890m) on border infrastructure to help keep trade flowing after its transition deal with the European Union expires at the end of the year, Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove announced on Sunday.

After more than three years in which the German Chancellor Angela Merkel repeatedly emphasised her openness to a deal that would maintain the UK’s current flows of trade with the bloc, she now suggested the door leading to such a compromise had now closed and that country will have to “live with the consequences” of ditching Theresa May’s plan to maintain close economic ties with the bloc after Brexit.

French President Emmanuel Macron will visit the UK today to mark the 80th anniversary of General de Gaulle’s appeal to the French resistance during World War Two, and to talk discuss Brexit matters with PM Boris Johnson, news wires reported. Macron will be hosted by Prince Charles.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for "fresh momentum" ahead of a meeting with Britain that should breathe new life into stalled negotiations on the two major trading partners' post-Brexit relations.

The EU and the UK ended on Friday their fourth round of talks on a future trade deal without achieving a breakthrough, news wires reported. "My job is to tell the truth," EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier told reporters. "And to tell the truth, this week there have been no real areas of progress."

Britain hopes the latest round of trade talks with the European Union starting on Tuesday will keep the process on track before a high-level meeting later this month, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.

Britain and the EU will attempt to revive their imperilled trade talks on Tuesday, entering a crucial week of negotiations that could mark the final hope for a deal.

By running down the clock and refusing to ask for an extension, Boris Johnson’s hope seems to be to secure concessions from the EU at the last minute. This form of brinkmanship is likely to backfire and increases the chance of no deal.

The European Union and Britain are likely to have to engage in accelerated Brexit talks over the summer because no one expects a breakthrough at the next round of talks, an adviser to the EU’s chief trade negotiator Michel Barnier said on Friday.

The EU is willing to move forward in negotiations on future EU-UK relations, but Britain must make a bigger effort to do the same in talks next week, Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan said on Thursday.  He told EU lawmakers that unfortunately the negotiations had not made much progress to date.