“The talk at the meeting was mainly about when to hold a vote on it in the parliament,” an EU official said. On citizens’ rights, the offer to give EU nationals the same rights as British citizens would leave them with fewer rights than today. He is jeopardising the Brexit negotiations by threatening to turn the UK into a low-regulation economy. “I would never underestimate the importance of process and the legal framework for the negotiations to the EU,” he added. Brexit was not “Europe’s future”, and the continent, now opening trade negotiations with Australia and New Zealand, would move on.

Source: The Guardian September 16, 2017 20:37 UTC