EUROPE PANICS: EU’s Brexit Unity on the BRINK as French Urge for Compromise in Trade Talks

• EUROPE PANICS: EU’s Brexit Unity on the BRINK as French Urge for Compromise in Trade Talks
  by SIMON OSBORNE, http://www.express.co.uk/
  EUROPEAN Union’s Brexit position after France and other EU nations signalled they were willing to tear up the Brussels-imposed timetable on negotiations and get trade talks under way in October.
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  The French proposals could lead to a major climbdown by European Unions hardliners who insist the terms of Britain’s departure need to be thrashed out before any free trade discussions get under way.
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  The UK refuses to write any cheques unless payments are linked to a future trade deal with the EU, while Brussels insists there can be no trade talks until the money question is settled. But in a sign of growing tensions and possible splits within the EU, senior French diplomats have now made it clear they want the deadlock broken.
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