Devil in the Detail: Brexit Talks Are Making Little Progress

From the large issues like Britain‘s divorce bill, to the small technical ones like reciprocal health care, progress is scarce. That makes the chances of the U.K. being allowed to move on to trade talks in October increasingly slim, according to Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament‘s Brexit coordinator. The European Union blames Britain‘s reluctance to set out its positions; Britain says the EU isn‘t flexible enough to compromise.

„To be flexible you need two points, our point and their point,“ EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier told reporters on the sidelines of talks in Brussels on Wednesday. „We need to know their position and then I can be flexible.“