European Chief Negotiator for Brexit Michel Barnier chats with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and France's President Francois Hollande during a EU summit in Brussels, Belgium April 29, 2017. Reuters/Eric Vidal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders endorsed stiff divorce terms for Britain on Saturday and warned Britons to have "no illusions" about swiftly securing a new relationship to keep their access to EU markets.
At a Brussels summit marked by unusual harmony among the 27 leaders, there was a flash of the cross-Channel acrimony which some fear could wreck any deal when officials accused London of cynically vetoing some EU spending and demanded it back down or face disrupting the start of talks next month.
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