The EU’s chief negotiator has insisted actual progress on Britain’s divorce bill, residents’ rights and the Irish border is “essential” before discussing a transitional deal. Britain has entered the fourth spherical of Brexit talks within the wake of a high-profile request for a two-yr transition interval from the Prime Minister. The former EU commissioner, who’s in line to receive an annual pension of £35,000 from Brussels, stated ‘no person’ warned earlier than the referendum Britain would go away the one market. Stated in April he needed to permit Britons to retain their European citizenship, and the parliament in Strasbourg has … Read the rest