EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier presents the first phase of his negotiating mandate.

“As soon as the UK will be able to come to the table, we will start,” said Barnier while presenting the Berlaymont’s Recommendation for starting the UK withdrawal from the EU negotiations.

Acknowledging that this will be a long path, Barnier estimated that it will be during October 2018 that the EU and UK will have reached an agreement on the orderly withdrawal. “Then we will have the definition of...