Join Jon Henley and Daniel Boffey as they discuss the EU27’s directives for the first phase of Brexit negotiations and whether, in the light of the attack in Manchester, security and intelligence sharing will be a factor in those talks

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This week the EU27 unanimously signed off on their negotiating position for Brexit talks, which we now know are likely to begin sometime in the week starting 19 June.

Michel Barnier, the bloc’s chief negotiator, presented the EU27’s key directives in an 18-page document covering the first phase of the negotiations – the divorce deal – and insisted it would stick to its longstanding demand that there could be no discussion of a future trade relationship before sufficient progress had been made on that.

And in a week in which Britain was shaken by a horrific terror attack in Manchester that claimed 22 lives and injured 59 people, some of them critically, is the question of security and intelligence sharing likely to be a factor in Brexit talks?

As well as this, the EU is hoping to avoid a hard border in Ireland, and wants to ensure that any future government can be held to account if it fails to uphold the Brexit agreement.

Joining Jon Henley is Daniel Boffey, the Guardian’s Brussels bureau chief.