President of the European Council Donald Tusk says “no sufficient progress” has been made to move to the next phase of Brexit talks in Brussels, upsetting Prime Minister Theresa May’s attempt to move forward negotiations on future ties between Britain and the EU.
“We will discuss our future relations with the UK once there is so-called sufficient progress,” Tusk told reporters on Tuesday outside May’s Downing Street office in London after a two-hour meeting with her.
“If you ask me today… I would say there is no sufficient progress yet but we will work on it,” he added.
May said: “I think that by being creative in the ways that we approach these issues we can find solutions that work both for the remaining 27 but also for the UK.”
EU and UK officials are holding a fourth round of Brexit negotiations this week in Brussels which has seen little progress so far.
The European Council will decide in October whether sufficient progress…