European leaders have roundly declared that it's now time to get on with Brexit after U.K leader Boris Johnson secured an emphatic win in the country's general election.
Johnson's victory is being interpreted as clarity on the U.K.'s departure from the European Union. The Brexit process has often paralyzed policymaking within the EU since negotiations began in 2017. Johnson has campaigned on the promise that the U.K. will leave the EU next month and then enter a transition period that is currently set to last until the end of 2020.
"I would like to congratulate Boris Johnson on his victory. We expect a vote on the withdrawal agreement as soon as possible," Charles Michel, the European Council president who chairs European summits, said Friday. Xavier Bettel, the Luxembourg prime minister told CNBC Thursday that he would like the new parliamentary majority in the U.K. to agree to all the future relations "very quickly."
Michel Barnier, the EU's Brexit negotiator, has said that it is unlikely that the U.K. and the EU will put a trade deal together within 11 months — meaning by the end of 2020, according to a leaked tape that the British newspaper The Independent obtained.
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