The EU’s Brexit Negotiators: Veterans of European Backroom Wars
- Frenchman Barnier leads seasoned team of savvy EU insiders
- Germans, Belgians are also featured on the European side
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The European Union is fleshing out its negotiating team for the U.K.’s planned withdrawal from the 28-nation bloc.
While leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be key to what Brexit ends up looking like, much of the work will be done by an array of politicians and bureaucrats representing different EU institutions. All are armed with an abundance of technical expertise, diplomatic sensibility and political savvy from their years operating supranational networks in Brussels.