GETTY Theresa May is due to meet EU leaders later today at a council summit

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Boris Johnson called on the EU to match the UK’s “generous” proposals by promptly offering similar terms to British expats on the continent. The Foreign Secretary said: “What the Prime Minister will be able to do on Thursday is set out, as she has tried actually to do several times, her instinct to be generous about the 3.2 million EU citizens who are living here and hoping that there will be reciprocal, corresponding generosity towards the one million UK nationals in the rest of the EU. “I think she's got a great offer to make and I hope it will go down well.”

However, EU leaders claim they have no plans to discuss Brexit with Mrs May at the dinner. A senior EU diplomat said: “President Tusk is not going to encourage a discussion on this point. The European council of 28 is not a place for negotiations with the UK.” The summit falls one year after the Brexit referendum and it will be the first time the Prime Minister has met all the EU leaders since the General Election.

Brexit talks 2017: Day one of Brexit negotiations latest pictures Mon, June 19, 2017 The first stage of the negotiations concerns the fate of European expatriates in the United Kingdom and Britons settled in Europe Play slideshow EPA 1 of 11 David Davis and Michel Barnier give a press conference at the end of a meeting at EU Commission in Brussels

The Government have been quiet about its position on various Brexit issues and it has angered EU leaders. Another European diplomat said: “Any clarity about where they want to go is of course welcome. I think they are making life difficult for themselves.” EU members will also hear a report from chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier regarding his talks with David Davis earlier this week following an agreement to put off trade talks until a divorce bill has been settled.

It follows claims by Manfred Weber, leader of the European People’s Party Group, who insisted that Britain’s decision to leave the bloc was a mistake. Speaking on European Parliament’s Facebook page during a live broadcast, Mr Weber reiterated Britain could retain no EU benefits after it cuts ties with the bloc. He said: “Brexit is the most important issue right now for all of us because it is the first time a country is leaving.

GETTY The Brexit secretary agreed to discuss the divorce bill before anything else earlier this week

“I have to say, first of all, it will create damage. It will create damage because the whole idea of Europe was to make our life easier. “No border anymore, common currency, no roaming anymore, so we tried to do our best to make our life more comfortable. “Now when somebody is leaving it means that you don’t have any more advantages of this union.

GETTY An EU diplomat was quick to point out that Brexit would not be discussed at the meeting