EU and British negotiators say the first day of negotiations on Britain's departure from the European Union was productive in outlining the program ahead and setting out the first challenges to settle, especially the rights of citizens living on each other's territory.
A beaming Brexit Secretary David Davis, a veteran campaigner against European Union membership, told a sombre Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator, that his team aimed to maintain a "positive and constructive tone" during "challenging" talks ahead in the hope of reaching a deal that was in the interests of both sides.
"We must first tackle the uncertainties caused by Brexit, first for citizens but also for beneficiaries of European Union policies and for the impact on borders - in particular Ireland", said Barnier, raising the prospect that the British split could rekindle violence in Northern Ireland.
Barnier said the goal of the talks was to deliver an "orderly withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU".
Barnier said it was a "common passion" with May, who made her ill-fated decision to call recent elections while she was rambling in Wales.
"Interest rates on savings are very low, we are talking in the region or 0.01 per cent to 0.04 per cent, so locking up cash is not all that attractive". But EU leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, are also determined not to make concessions to Britain that might encourage others to quit. He said he views the talks with "informed optimism". May says Britain will leave the EU's single market in goods and services and its tariff-free customs union, but nonetheless, somehow, wants "frictionless" free trade.
The two men will meet for a week every month to negotiate, and use the time in between to "work on proposals".
Referring to its new poll of 1,350 contract professionals, the advisory found that nearly four in ten contractors said they expected the UK's 'leave' decision to "negatively impact" them.
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The CIPD report has been published just a day after a consortium of business lobby groups - the British Chambers of Commerce, the Confederation of British Industry, the EEF (previously known as the Engineering Employers' Federation), the Federation of Small Businesses and the Institute of Directors - sent an open letter calling on the government to "put the economy first" in the Brexit talks.
Insurers need to set up EU subsidiaries to carry on business in the EU if Britain does not remain part of the European single market.
Britain and the EU have agreed on the priorities and timetable for Brexit negotiations after the first session of talks on Monday, EU pointman Michel Barnier said. "There is more that unites us than divides us".
"We must first tackle the uncertainties caused by Brexit", said Barnier, a former French minister, as he greeted Davis at the European Commission's Berlaymont Building headquarters.
"The best way we can spend this week is to rebuild trust", rather than tackle the big hard issues right at the start, another European source said. Britain insists that it must regain the right to control immigration and end free movement from other European Union countries into Britain.
Some of her ministers want to refashion her strategy toward protecting trade with Britain's biggest market rather than continue to aim for her original goal of winning control of immigration and law-making.
Over the 12 months since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, European equity funds have been the clear winners. "We keep hearing only what they don't want, but we don't have any picture of what future relations will look like".
He added that "now, the hard work begins", Davis said, adding he wanted a deal that worked for both sides.
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