At the end of Monday afternoon on 28 August in Brussels, the respective EU and British negotiators for the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU, Michel Barnier and David Davis, opened the third “Brexit” cycle of negotiations that will end on Thursday, 31 August before the following meeting arranged for 18 September.
The two men, however, demonstrated very different positions. Mr Barnier from France immediately expressed his “concern” over the lack of clarity in the British positions...