EU says UK will have no say during short Brexit transition

BRUSSELS (AP) — Britain will have less than two years to ease its way out of the European Union and must obey all the bloc's rules while having no say in its decision-making during that period, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator said Wednesday.

Britain officially leaves the EU at midnight on March 29, 2019, but negotiator Michel Barnier said its European partners would accept a transition period to help prepare for Brexit that should only last until the end of 2020.

The EU's current seven-year budget period winds up on Dec.