EU leaders sign Brexit deal as Britain MPs debate ratification
30 Dec 2020
Boris Johnson gestures as he leaves 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday. Agence France-Presse
EU leaders signed their post-Brexit trade deal with Britain and dispatched it to London on an RAF jet Wednesday, setting their seal on a drawn-out divorce just hours before the UK brings its half-century European experiment to an end.
EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, the heads of the European Commission and European Council, smiled at a brief televised ceremony to put their names to the 1,246-page Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
“It has been a long road. It’s time now to put Brexit behind us. Our future is made in Europe,” von der Leyen said