The Guardian view on the EU summit: a decent 24 hours for Theresa May | Editorial

The EU27 and the UK did well by keeping the Brexit ball in play. A finesse of the difficult issues in their next meeting in December will be much harderIt is a sign of how little has actually been achieved in the UK’s Brexit negotiations that the outcome of this week’s European council meeting in Brussels has promptly been hailed on both sides as progress. On the face of it, after all, the Brexit takeaway from the EU summit is extremely thin. The first phase of the article 50 ne