May to meet Tusk after Juncker on eve of Brexit summit

Talks with top two EU officials to prepare for endorsement of deal.

British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet European Council President Donald Tusk in Brussels on Saturday evening following talks with Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.

The meetings will take place on the eve of Sunday’s European Council summit, at which leaders of the EU’s member countries are due to endorse the Brexit deal negotiated between Brussels and London.

May’s meeting with Juncker had been previously scheduled but the talks with Tusk were announced by the European Council on Friday evening. The prime minister is expected to meet Juncker at around 6 p.m. Brussels time and then see Tusk at 7:15 p.m.

EU diplomats say they were assured by the Commission that the aim of the meeting with Juncker is not to reopen the text of the Political Declaration agreed with London this week. EU leaders made clear they would not accept any changes to the text and want Sunday’s summit to be a low-key affair that simply rubber-stamps the declaration and the Withdrawal Agreement.

The only issue that still needs to be resolved ahead of the summit is a dispute over Gibraltar. Spain has raised serious objections in the last few days over the text of the Political Declaration and the 585-page Withdrawal Agreement. It wants to make clear that future talks with the U.K. are separate to those regarding Gibraltar — and that Spain has a say in how those proceed.

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