Brexit Negotiators Home In on Landing Zone Despite Disputes

  • EU pushes for compromises after signaling softening of stance
  • U.K. describes this week’s talks as ‘comprehensive and useful’
Photographer: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg
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U.K. and European Union negotiators have started to sketch out the broad outline of an agreement on their future relationship as both sides look to the other to make compromises to seal the deal.

After talks in Brussels ended this week a day earlier than planned, officials close to the negotiations said the two teams are beginning to coalesce around a general “landing zone” that could form the basis of an agreement on trade and other areas of cooperation.