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EU COMMISSION: Despite the realization that the European officials are not going

to recommend that sufficient progress has been made in early Brexit negotiations

to advance to the next phase, there was hope that progress was not permanently

stalled, European Commission Economic and Finance Commissioner Pierre Moscovici

told MNI in an exclusive interview Saturday. "What I hope is that we will get

out of the temporary impasse which we are now in," Moscovici told MNI. "For

that, we need to get back to the strong logic of the negotiation. First, let's

resolve the concrete problems on the table, then discuss the future relationship

between us," he said, sticking to the EC's party line on two-stage negotiations.