EU’s chief negotiator expected to head to London on Friday for a last-ditch push for agreement
Ursula von der Leyen has said the EU is willing to be “creative” to get a deal with the UK, as she counselled MEPs that European interests would be served by the bloc’s leaders backing any compromise that emerges.
While warning in a speech to the European parliament that she was unable to guarantee that a trade and security deal would be struck in the “very little time ahead of us”, the European commission president said she trusted in Michel Barnier’s “skilful steer”.
