Meeting without their British counterpart in Luxembourg on Thursday 27 April, the European ministers for European affairs approved the draft guidelines to steer negotiations on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, to be adopted by the 27 European leaders at a special Brexit summit on Saturday 29 April.
These guidelines, which are considerably tougher than those presented by the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, on 31 March (see EUROPE 11759), received...