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Reuters: PM May and EU’s Tusk will seek to reduce tensions in Brexit talks

Published April 6, 2017 at 9:01 pm

British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing street for the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session at the House of Commons in central London on February 1, 2017.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Council President Donald Tusk agreed on April 6 to try to lower tensions in upcoming Brexit talks, especially over issues like Gibraltar.

The future of the rocky British enclave on the southern tip of Spain became the first big point of controversy in Brexit negotiations after the EU draft position said the application of any EU-UK trade deal to Gibraltar had be agreed between Spain and Britain.