Negotiations on the future post-Brexit relationship will continue this week in London until Wednesday 28 October, then in Brussels, AFP reported on 26 October.
Discussions between the two partners resumed on 22 October after a few days of deadlock linked to the European Summit of 15 October (see EUROPE 12586/14); a new call between the British negotiator, David Frost, and his EU counterpart Michel Barnier, had made it possible to relaunch them and the two men had agreed on common principles, such as working on the basis of legal texts and doing it intensively.
A Commission spokesperson confirmed this timetable to EUROPE. The EU negotiator was in London until Saturday evening, then was due to return to London on 26 October until mid-week. Starting Wednesday, the teams will be in Brussels and could work all weekend as well.
All subjects are discussed, but attention is naturally turned to the three main points of divergence: a level playing field, governance and fisheries.
On Monday, no meeting between Michel Barnier and the ambassadors of the Member States to the EU was yet scheduled on the agenda for a progress report. An EU Council of Ministers for European Affairs is scheduled, at this stage, for 10 November. (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)