The European Union is more unified in its policy towards Britain's leaving the bloc than on anything else in its past, the new holder of the EU presidency said on Wednesday, according to Reuters. "I spoke and visited basically all other 26 (EU) member states and there's a ... convergence on the attitude towards Brexit. I have never seen such a convergence within the European family," Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told reporters on the sidelines of a diplomatic conference in Slovenia. The EU says it will not begin negotiations until Britain formally invoked Article 50 of the EU treaty triggering withdrawal. British Prime Minister Theresa May says she will do so by the end of March. Muscat also said the EU needs to secure its borders, stressing those at sea.
