Crucial decisions about the U.K.’s future relationship with the European Union are set to be crammed into a dramatic final few weeks of the year after the coronavirus ate into vital negotiating time and Britain ruled out extending the deadline. Officials with knowledge of the negotiations are predicting little meaningful progress on the most important disagreements before a key summit of political leaders in June. Even that meeting may not provide a turning point. Officials don’t expect either side to walk away from negotiations -- and even if the U.K. did, some in Brussels speculate it would return to negotiate ... (full story)