Brexit Negotiators Start Talking Trade With Progress Sluggish
- EU explained future-relationship guidelines to U.K. officials
- Irish border and other separation issues still unresolved
Luxembourg Fin Min Says Brexit Talks Are 'Extremely Difficult'
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The first formal meeting between the U.K. and the European Union on their post-Brexit relationship ended with little in the way of serious progress.
Senior officials from the British government’s Brexit department and their counterparts from the European Commission picked over the guidelines for future ties that the EU’s 27 remaining leaders published last month, said a person familiar with the talks. That document acts as a starting point for a more detailed agreement on post-2020 relations that the two sides hope to finalize before late-October.