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EU approves tough negotiating mandate for UK trade talks

by Associated Press
| February 26, 2020 12:05 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Tuesday gave its chief negotiator a robust mandate for free trade talks with ex-member Britain, setting up a likely clash over the U.K.’s demand to export to the continent on its own terms without the need to necessarily respect the bloc's rules and regulations.

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