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Report: May to seek two-year EU transition
By EUobserver
UK prime minister Theresa May is preparing to ask the EU for a two-year transition deal after Britain leaves the bloc in 2019, the BBC reported on Thursday, amid final tweaks to her speech in Italy on Friday. She will call for deeper ties than Canada has with the EU (free trade only), but fewer obligations than Norway (such as free movement of EU migrants), the BBC said.