BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top official said Thursday that “substantial progress on many issues” has been made in post-Brexit talks, yet big differences remain to be bridged.
Speaking after a phone conversation with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen added that bridging those differences, in particular on fisheries, “will be very challenging.”
With just two weeks to go before a potentially chaotic economic split, hopes have risen over the past few days about the prospects of a breakthrough.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union’s executive commission, are to discuss the state of post-Brexit trade talks in a call later Thursday — with just two weeks to go before a potentially…
