Following the Biarritz G7, contacts are continuing this week between European leaders and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to try to reach an agreement on the UK's exit from the EU by 31 October. After meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on the morning of Tuesday 27 August, the British leader was later to have a telephone conversation with Jean-Claude Juncker.
The two men have not spoken since July and the President of the European Commission could not travel to Biarritz. The...