The United Kingdom and the European Union are negotiating Brexit and hope to finalize the terms by October.
That would give both sides time to resolve their differences by March 29, 2019, when the U.K. is scheduled to leave the European Union.
But the negotiations have been anything but smooth. And with a lot of uncertainties about the transition, some are calling for a second referendum on the issue.
CGTN’s Richard Bestic reports from London.
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To discuss all of this:
- Joe Twyman is the founder and director of Deltapoll, a public opinion research firm.
- David Smith is the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for The Guardian.
- Remi Piet is a research fellow at the University of Miami.
- Claude Barfield is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
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— Bloomberg (@business) August 5, 2018