On Monday 19 March, the negotiators of the European Union and the United Kingdom on Brexit, Michel Barnier and David Davis, announced that they have made decisive progress towards an orderly British withdrawal from the EU on 29 March 2019.
The two men, who were meeting in Brussels for the first time in 2018, announced an agreement on the terms of the post-Brexit transitional period. This will run until the end of 2020 and will allow London to prepare to become a third country once again.