Brussels — Britain’s exit negotiations with the European Union this week failed to make the kind of progress needed to open talks on their future relationship in October, the bloc’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Thursday. However, British Brexit Minister David Davis said, the two sides had made "some concrete progress" and there was "high degree of convergence" on the future border with Ireland. Britain would "rigorously" question how much it had to pay the EU when it leaves, Davis said. However, London may consider paying more than the bare legal minimum given its desire for a future partnership with the bloc, he said. "We are a country that meets its international obligations and will continue to do so, but those obligations have to be well specified and they have to be real," Davis told a news conference. "They don’t necessarily have to be legal. We also recognise moral obligations sometimes." The EU has said that talks on the future relationship can only start after th...
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