The EU is planning to negotiate the Brexit transition period with the UK as part of talks on the text of the withdrawal agreement.
Substantive talks on the transition deal will only start once the European Commission has put the terms of the divorce agreed last December into a legal text, which was fine tuned by member states.
That legal text of the Brexit withdrawal agreement and transition is expected to be finalised by 28 February, a source familiar with the discussions said....
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