Brussels — EU officials hope the British government will show more urgency about a Brexit deal when its negotiators come to Brussels on Monday for a first full round of talks aimed at smoothing Britain’s departure. "The hard work starts now," EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said last week, again sounding a note of alarm that London has yet to provide detailed proposals on a range of key issues, with barely a year left for bargaining. A year after the referendum vote to leave, Prime Minister Theresa May still faces a complex task in finding consensus at home on what kind of Brexit Britain wants. That job was made all the harder by her losing her parliamentary majority in June’s elections. Her Brexit minister, veteran anti-EU campaigner David Davis, will meet Barnier, a French former cabinet minister, at the European Commission’s headquarters on Monday morning for a brief public handshake before formal business begins. Their teams will spend most of the next four days in smaller wo...
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