After a Social Summit in Gothenburg (see separate article) on Friday 17 November, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, gave the British pm, Theresa May, until the ‘beginning of December’ to provide the final guarantees required on the Irish question and the financial regulation in order to be able to move on to discuss post-Brexit trade relations in December.
The two politicians met earlier in the day to discuss progress in the negotiations and agreed to meet again on...