British Prime Minister Theresa May has failed in her attempts to renegotiate the draft treaty on her country's withdrawal from the European Union (EU), or Brexit.
Mrs May, who visited Brussels in a last-ditch bid to extract EU concessions, returned empty-handed after admitting that the European negotiations were "robust", a polite diplomatic term for seriously bad-tempered exchanges.
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