It's goodbye to Britain. EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council president Charles Michel sign the UK-EU withdrawal agreement (Photo: Council of the European Union)

Brexit finally happens - the UK leaves the EU This WEEK

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by Eszter Zalan, Brussels,

The EU is entering a historic week - although the bloc's institutions go out of their way not to mark the event.

The UK leaves the EU on Friday (31 January) at midnight, the first-ever member state to do so.

The signing of the divorce deal took place on Friday (24 January), but the EU commission and EU council did not allow press organisations to document the signing - over which the Associated Press news agency filed an official complaint.

To round up the ratification pr...

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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