On Monday 29 January, the ministers for European affairs of the Twenty-Seven, agreed upon the outlines of the transition period to begin on 29 March 2019, when the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU is to take effect.
By adopting the negotiation directives on this subject - in barely ten minutes, as the EU’s deputy negotiator, Sabine Weyand, tweeted - the ministers have shown extraordinary unity, the Bulgarian Foreign Minister, Ekaterina Zaharieva, pointed out.
In this mandate...