One Video Call Has Rebooted the Brexit Negotiations

What’s happening? Talks are stepping up a gear with both sides more optimistic a deal can be struck. Will the good mood last?

They did it. Monday’s meeting between British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen clears the way for six more weeks of intensive negotiations on the shape of future ties between the U.K. and European Union. Johnson says he wants a deal by July—but both sides now accept the real deadline is more likely to be October.