Special delivery – Brexit letter makes history | Reuters
By Alastair Macdonald and Yves Herman | BRUSSELS BRUSSELS It's been two centuries since a British emissary arrived in Brussels bearing a dispatch of such historic portent but Sir Tim Barrow, Britain's new envoy to the EU, took it in his diplomatic stride.The ambassadorial Jaguar in which he rode to the European Council on Wednesday morning bearing Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit notification was certainly more comfortable than the warhorse that brought the Duke of Wellington's messenger to the city bearing news of victory at nearby Waterloo in 1815.But if word of Napoleon's defeat transformed Europe, so too the modest six pages on Downing Street foolscap by which May set the clock ticking on a two-year countdown to departure from the European Union bear huge ramifications for the whole continent.The trigger moment itself lacked great drama. At 1:25 p.m. (1125 GMT), Barrow proffered the crisp, narrow white envelope to Donald Tusk, who chairs summits of EU leaders
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