EU leaders endorse Brexit negotiating plan

UK's Brexit bill will be 40 to 60 billion euros, says Luxembourg prime minister

European Union leaders unanimously approved guidelines for the upcoming Brexit talks, setting the stage for two-years of tussles with the UK government over finance and trade.

“Unity in action,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Twitter as he announced the 27 EU governments rubber-stamped the negotiating strategy in less than 15 minutes at a summit in Brussels.

Policy makers arrived declaring that they were united in their approach to Brexit and that Britain wouldn’t be allowed to be better off outside the bloc than inside it. Prime Minister Theresa May’s government was told it will have to agree to pay a