The UK has turned up the pressure dial on Brexit talks as negotiators begin their first face-to-face talks in Brussels since February to try to break the deadlock over its future relationship with the European Union. This week is the start of a month of intensified negotiations between teams of experts that will determine the trade terms between the EU and the UK from January 1st next year. “David will start around the end of August,” a UK spokesman said. “Some of the red lines the UK has drawn have cut across some of the EU’s fundamental core principles,” one EU official said. “That’s something the EU can’t budge on, and the UK doesn’t seem to understand that.

Source: The Irish Times June 30, 2020 03:56 UTC