BRUSSELS, April 29 -- The 27 European Union (EU) countries' leaders during their first official meeting since last month's British triggering of the Article 50 adopted unanimously the guidelines on Brexit negotiations with Britain, European Council President Donald Tusk said Saturday.
"I want to underline the outstanding unity of all the 27 leaders on the guidelines for our negotiations with the UK. They were adopted immediately after we started the summit," Tusk said at the press conference after the meeting.
Tusk said the 27 EU countries' leaders had accepted "phased approach" as the method of conducting the Brexit talks. "Before negotiating future relations with UK, we must achieve sufficient progress on citizens' rights, finances, and border issue in Ireland," he elaborated.
"In order to achieve sufficient progress, we need a serious British response," Tusk said.
It is too early to speculate on when this might happen, he said, adding, "It'll be for the EU leaders to assess and decide if sufficient progress has been made."
Tusk underlined that citizens rights is the "priority number one" the EU leaders will focus on.
"We are talking about four and a half million people: Europeans residing in the UK, and Britons living on the continent," he said. "We need real guarantees for our people to live, work and study in the UK, and the same goes for the British."
He noted a full list of rights and benefits that the EU aims to guarantee for those affected by Brexit has been prepared by the European Commission, the executive body of the EU.
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