EU warns of tough post-Brexit talks with UK

The EU’s top official yesterday told Britain that it could lose its open access to the European market if it refused to extend post-Brexit partnership talks beyond 2020.

Ursula von der Leyen’s warning to Prime Minister Boris Johnson came ahead of their first meeting in her capacity as European Commission president -- and with Brexit just three weeks away.

Both sides are eager to move on from the more than three years of tumult and acrimony that followed Britain’s decision in a 2016 referendum to end its decades-long membership of the bloc.