Michel Barnier: ‘Fundamental divergence’ with UK over post-Brexit rights of citizens’
By David M. Herszenhorn, Charlie Cooper, Quentin Ariès and Maïa de la Baume
Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, said Thursday there was a “fundamental divergence” with the British negotiating team over the way that the rights of EU citizens in the U.K. would be guaranteed and that he needed clarity from Britain on its position on the Brexit bill.
