EU Is Engaging With U.K. Trade Plan in Boost for May
- EU has asked questions about how May’s proposal would work
- May is still fighting to get her Cabinet to back her
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The European Union is starting to engage with Theresa May’s proposal for how to keep trade flowing after Brexit -- a plan it had branded unworkable.
European negotiators are still struggling to see how the complicated and untested scheme -- which May’s own foreign minister has called "crazy" -- could work, but they have asked a series of questions with a view to finding a way forward, according to two EU officials.