Negotiators have squared the circle, fudged where politically necessary and compromised where must.
After nine months of negotiations, UK and EU officials on Friday (8 December) produced a 15-page joint report of the result of those talks. Here is a summary of the main points of the agreement on the basis for the divorce.
The EU's main aim was to provide EU...
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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.