More than two years on from the UK’s Brexit referendum, Theresa May and other EU leaders sat side by side on Sunday to approve a historic exit treaty, knowing full well it might be pronounced dead in Westminster in just two weeks’ time.
Sober, disciplined and — for Brussels — unimaginably short, this summit of the EU’s top table was unlike anything before in the 60 years of the European project, with implications that outlast even a negative vote in the British parliament.
To those most closely involved in the negotiations, the deal has changed the calculus on how Brexit can unfold.
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