EU officials formally sign post-Brexit trade deal with UK

EU officials formally sign post-Brexit trade deal with UK

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen speaks to the media. File photo





Gulf Today Report



The European Union's top officials and British leaders signed their mammoth trade pact to set the seal on their drawn-out Brexit divorce just hours before the UK quits the bloc after a half-century of troubled partnership.



EU leaders signed their post-Brexit trade deal with Britain and dispatched it to London on an RAF jet on Wednesday, setting their seal on a drawn-out divorce just hours before the UK brings its half-century European experiment to an end, according to AFP.

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The texts were then to be flown to London in an RAF jet for the signature of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on the eve of Britain's departure from the EU