UK: Focus on EU leaders summit outcome – TDS
|Analysts at TDS point out that EU leaders wrap up their 2-day summit where they’re fully expected to approve the Phase 1 Brexit agreement reached last week between PM May & EC President Juncker.
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“This sets the stage for Phase 2 discussions, where we expect the EU27 to offer a transitional agreement to the UK in the coming weeks that allows the UK to remain within the EU “acquis” (while not participating in EU institutions) until end-2020.”
“In early 2018, EU27 leaders will begin discussion on the framework of the trade agreement that will be offered to the UK, with much of 2018 EU/UK negotiations focused on this framework. Full-blown trade negotiations are not expected to begin until April 2019.”
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