The EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier on Tuesday said trade talks had started on the right foot as officials began a three-month sprint to settle future EU-UK relations.
Each side assembled about 100 officials at a Brussels conference centre and split into nine groups for intense and detailed negotiations on a wide range of topics, with trade the thorniest issue.
"The negotiations are going well," Barnier told reporters. "In the first phase we are trying to see clearly, precisely, where our divergences, grey zones, convergences are."
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