so they told us this morning at their
little opening ceremony of round two the
progress will be made in this is
michelle barney and david davis what
progress can we expect this week they
didn't tell us a lot really Dube they
just said they just said they both
realized at the time the clock was
ticking away and the progress needed to
be made they really need to focus on
this issue of citizens rights how to
protect the rights of European Nationals
in the UK after brexit and they also
need to come up with some way of
calculating the U at UK's breaks it bill
how much the UK is willing to pay until
they get progress on those two issues
there you can't see these talks making
any progress at all talking of not
making any progress at all we're still
trying to understand what the lie of the
land is in London
does that make the talks in Brussels
Brussels less relevant or less important
considering we really don't understand
what the future political direction of
Britain is I don't think you can
underestimate the importance at all I
think they're very important and you get
the feeling here that the EU from the EU
side they're looking at the shenanigans
going on in Westminster thinking why
can't they just sort it out and get on
with this thing that's going to cause
disruption for the UK for years and
years to come so whatever's going on
around the Prime Minister in London both
sides I think recognise that they've got
to get down to business in Brussels in
the mystery for me is from the European
side John Michael thwaite had this in
Bloomberg Business Week
earlier this week what is their
incentive to get anything done does it
the EU just want to delay and delay in
delay until the last moment well I mean
we can't say that it's not in the EU
side to get a deal as well as much as
Britain won some kind of easy way out of
the EU the EU also wants a deal because
it wants the UK's money and it wants to
continue trading with the UK so yes you
know they're saying they're putting down
the rules they're putting down the
markers and telling the UK to to fit in
with us but also they're say look it's
in our interest to get a deal as well so
let's all work together let's get our
heads together