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Ursula von der Leyen's words came after the UK and EU reached a Brexit trade agreement.
Talks had stretched into the night and much of the day on Christmas Eve after a last-minute "hitch" over fishing rights.
With just days left until current trading arrangements end on December 31, a trade deal could be in sight.
Things didn't have to be this way, writes UK in a Changing Europe Senior Fellow Catherine Barnard.
Transport secretary Grant Shapps says it could take days to test all drivers for Covid-19, with estimates of 8,000 lorries stuck in Kent.
Some 650 lorries are currently stuck on the M20, and a further 873 moved to an airfield, as the government scrambles to reopen travel in and out of the UK.
Even Tory MPs are calling for a delay as Brexit threatens to combine with Covid to plunge Britain into a bleak midwinter.
Keir Starmer says Boris Johnson must agree "oven ready" deal with Brussels that he promised in 2019.
The Brexiteer accused European countries of acting like "thugs and bullies".
From food supplies to the vaccine, how life will be affected as borders close amid fears about a new strain of the coronavirus.