The UK will have to make tangible progress in the Brexit negotiations by the end of June, especially on the Irish issue, if it wants to count on an EU withdrawal agreement at the end of the year. It will also have to stop its "fantasies" about its future relationship with the EU and accept that a departure from the European bloc will involve a loss of benefits for the country.
This is the message the European negotiators wanted to give London publicly on Thursday evening, 24 May, at the...