British Prime Minister Theresa May said Friday she hoped the EU would respond “positively” to her proposals for Brexit, as the bloc’s leaders warned time was running out to move to trade talks in December. May repeated that “we will honour our commitments” on the exit bill the EU says Britain must pay, as she promised in a speech in Florence in September. EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier warned last week that Britain had just two weeks to meet the bloc’s conditions on the divorce bill, citizens’ rights and the Irish border if it wanted an agreement at the next EU summit to unlock the next phase of talks. Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar meanwhile struck a firm line, insisting there had to be progress on Dublin’s demands that Brexit should create no “hard border” between British-ruled Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland. Brexit never?

Source: Pakistan Today November 17, 2017 10:52 UTC