EU Must Talk Brexit Trade When U.K. Offers Money, May Urges
- Suspicions remain in London that EU won’t give in exchange
- U.K. has proposed Irish get open-ended veto to break impasse
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Prime Minister Theresa May meets European Union President Donald Tusk on Friday as the U.K. seeks guarantees that the bloc will allow stalled Brexit talks to make progress in exchange for new British assurances over money.
Suspicions remain in London that the EU will simply bank any new promise from May and then demand more, without agreeing to move talks on to the trade deal that the U.K. wants, according to a person familiar with the matter. British officials believe that would be fatal to the negotiations process and want concrete assurances that a new offer on the money will be reciprocated, the person said.