Michel Barnier, the EU negotiator for the orderly exit of the United Kingdom, expressed optimism about the outcome of discussions with the British government in a series of interviews with European newspapers published this weekend.
The negotiator asserted that since "the very significant negative vote in January, it seems to me that things have moved", he told the newspaper Les Echos. "I think there is a way for the British to be able to vote by March 12 with guarantees of our good will....