Economics
EU Officials Doubt May Will Break Brexit Deadlock
- Prime Minister May to update her strategy in Sept. 22 speech
- ‘We need clearer sense of where the Brits are,’ Denmark says
Florence
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European Union officials aren’t holding out much hope that U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May will next week break the deadlock in the Brexit negotiations.
A week before May delivers a speech in Florence aimed at updating her strategy towards the divorce, officials on the continent want her to propose solutions to sticking points such as the financial settlement, but aren’t confident she will do so.