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BRUSSELS — The Latest on Britain’s Brexit discussions with the European Union at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels (all times local):

2:55 p.m.

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EU Council President Donald Tusk says that concluding Brexit negotiations with Britain on time will be “dramatically difficult” and even “more demanding, more challenging” than the first phase of talks already were.

When asked if it was still realistic to meet the March 2019 deadline for Britain to leave the bloc with a full agreement, Tusk said “it is still realistic and of course dramatically difficult.”

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he expects “the real negotiations on the second phase” of Brexit talks to start in March.

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2:30 p.m.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is praising her fellow European leaders for agreeing to move on to the next phase in the negotiations over the U.K.’s withdrawal from the EU.

May was already back in Britain on Friday when the 27 other EU leaders agreed that “sufficient progress” had been made in the initial Brexit talks covering divorce terms to proceed to other topics such as trade.