British PM Boris Johnson's first European foray ends in humiliation
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker had their first face-to-face meeting over Brexit in Luxembourg yesterday. The two have offered starkly different assessments of the outcome of their talks.
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LONDON - Britain and the European Union have agreed to instruct their senior officials to meet on a daily basis in a last-ditch effort to complete a deal about Britain's departure from the EU before Oct 31, when the current deadline for such negotiations expires.
Although the move boosts hopes that a messy separation between the EU and Britain may yet be avoided, some European leaders are increasingly willing to vent in public their frustration at what they regard as a persistent British inability to conclude a reasonable exit deal.