Factbox - Team Barnier: Going into bat for EU in Brexit talks

Michel Barnier, the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, currently has a 29-strong team to coordinate Brussels' efforts to reach a divorce deal with Britain by 2019: THE TEAM Headed by Barnier, 66, a former French minister and EU commissioner, the team can call on and coordinate expertise across the European Commission, the EU's executive. Deputy chief negotiator Sabine Weyand, is a German veteran of the Commission, who studied at Cambridge in the 1980s.