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Brexit, phase two (and beyond): The future of the EU-UK relationship
The European Commission has recommended to the Council that sufficient progress has been made in phase one of the EU-UK negotiations. With the Council expected to endorse the recommendation this week, phase-two discussions on the future relationship can start (possibly in March). A possible timeline of the next steps in the EU-UK relationship is shown in the diagram below: a one-year period of negotiations that will take us up to October/November of 2018, at the latest. This allows for the minimum time required for the new agreement to be ratified by the EU by March 2019 – the cut-off date for the UK to leave the ... (full story)