Michael Barnier

The European Union (EU) wants to make the Brexit divorce settlement unchangeable, meaning a future government would be stuck with Theresa May’s “soft” Brexit and many of the bloc’s rules if the Prime Minister gets her way.

The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator said Friday that there are still “huge and serious divergences” between Britain and the bloc on Brexit, after U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May warned that failure to strike a good divorce deal could endanger European security.

The European Commission’s hardline Brexit negotiator has reasserted that the UK cannot “have autonomy anymore” over its trade policy if it remains tied to the bloc’s Customs Union.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Northern Ireland party that props up the government of British Prime Minister Theresa May insists that European Union proposals to avoid a hard border in Ireland after Brexit are “not acceptable.”

The European Union (EU) will seek to keep the UK tied to the bloc’s restrictive fishing quota system during the proposed two-year Brexit ‘transition period.’

Former UKIP leader and MEP Nigel Farage is to meet the European Union’s (EU) hard-line chief Brexit negotiator, and is asking for Brexit-supporters to submit their questions to put to him.

The European Union’s (EU) chief Brexit negotiator has been accused of an “outrageous slur” and “insult[ing]” British forces after clearly implying the UK has abandoned the fight against Islamic State terror in Europe by voting for Brexit.

British negotiators have told the European Union (EU) their sums on the so-called ‘Brexit bill’ do not add up.

BRUSSELS (AP) – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says that many issues still need to be settled on the Brexit divorce proceedings between the European Union and Britain before a new relationship with London can be negotiated. The third round

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has backtracked and said UK will pay a so-called Brexit ‘divorce bill’, having previously insisted the European Union (EU) could “go whistle” for the demand €100 billion (£92 billion).

The European Commission’s chief Brexit negotiator has offered Northern Ireland the possibility of retaining elements European Union (EU) membership after Brexit.

Leading MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has slammed European Union (EU) Brexit negotiators, claiming their threats to suspend talks until the UK pays a divorce bill are a “diversion tactic” designed to distract from the EU’s financial problems.

Moody’s Investors Service has said the probability of the UK walking away from the European Union (EU) without a deal is “substantial”, as EU negotiators threaten to stall talk until the UK offers to pay a 50 billion euro divorce bill.

After previously insisting the UK would be forced to settle a £50 billion Brexit bill before discussing its future relationship with the block, European Union (EU) negotiators have backtracked and are talking about trade. The revelation will be seen as

The European Union’s (EU) hardline chief Brexit negotiator has said it is impossible for the UK to win “frictionless trade” with the bloc and that freedom of movement is “indivisible”.

(AFP) — Britain accepted the European Union’s timetable for Brexit talks on Monday, in an apparent climbdown on the first day of formal negotiations in Brussels.

Brexit talks finally start Monday, a year after the referendum, 12 weeks after Article 50 was triggered, and just days after the Tories lost their majority in the House of Commons.

BRUSSELS (AFP) – EU ministers are set Monday to give Frenchman Michel Barnier the European mandate to negotiate Britain’s exit from the bloc, which he expects to start in earnest in mid-June following British elections.

BRUSSELS, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Michel Barnier has a dealmaker’s flair for gauging what the other side can accept but as Theresa May prepares to launch Brexit negotiations some EU officials wonder if Brussels’ man can really figure out what