European Council President Donald Tusk said after the informal summit of 27 member state leaders in Bratislava on Friday 16 September that UK Prime Minister Theresa May could activate Article 50 of the Treaty, launching the start of negotiations on the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, in January or February of next year.
May has told him that it would be impossible to trigger Article 50 this year but the United Kingdom would “quite likely be ready in January or...