December 4 pencilled in as the date to move ahead to the next phase of talks
Via Financial Times (may be gated):
- Senior EU diplomats say there is now a better than even chance of agreement on "sufficient progress" at an EU summit on December 14/15.
New impetus was given to the talks by Theresa May's upping her [payment offer to the EU to 40bn euro
GBP up a tickle
