EU Chief Negotiator on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU Michel Barnier, speaking on Friday 5 May, stressed the scale of the task of preserving the rights of 4.4 citizens (3.2 million EU citizens living in the United Kingdom and 1.2 million Britons living in the EU) after Brexit.
“We first need to tackle the rights of citizens and the orderly withdrawal of the United Kingdom”, said Barnier at the State of the Union conference organised by the European University Institute of Florence...