And so it begins. EU negotiator Michel Barnier needed no more than three words to announce the start of Brexit talks with the UK: “We are starting”, he wrote on Twitter.
Everything else – at least on the EU side – has already been said.
The EU has put five official documents on the table, from negotiating guidelines to directives to position papers, outlining its demands on citizens, the budget and Ireland. EU leaders are to sign off a set of criteria for the relocation of the...