Hello and welcome to another M-Lex podcast. I'm Sam Wilkin, Brussels News Editor, and today we're going to talk about Brexit. The ball is once again in the UK's court after EU leaders approved the withdrawal agreement on Sunday. Whether or not it gets through Parliament is anyone's guess. But let's say it does. What then?

Here to give us the view from Brussels are Zosio Anat and Mike Acton,

who both swapped brunch for Brexit reporting on Sunday.

Hello, Zosio and Mike.

Hi.

Hey.

Zosia, what did the EU leaders agree on Sunday exactly?

So the EU leaders had two key Brexit documents to endorse

during the Sunday summit. One of them is the withdrawal agreement. So this is this big,

more than 500 pages document that outlines the conditions of the divorce. So it basically outlines the provisions for the citizens' rights,

the UK financial commitment,

and it also ensures the transition period until the end of the 2020

with this possibility of extension, which is very important for businesses.

The other document is the political declaration on the future relations between the EU and the

UK, and this is much more of an aspirational document.

So it's non-binding and it somehow shows how the EU and the UK would like to see their relation in the

future after the transition period ends. And what I understand from both of these documents is

that it's something that everyone's been able to agree on, or at least all the national

leaders have been able to agree on, but it's not quite, it doesn't quite cover everything, does it?

There's the Irish border question,

and there's also been some other controversies around fisheries, around Gibraltar.

Where are these gaps now and how were they papered over?

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