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What you need to know about the EU's Brexit chief

Brussels has picked its champion – no stranger to those in Europe's financial sector – for the complex negotiations set to start with the UK

Michel Barnier
Michel Barnier Photo: Getty Images

Brussels has picked its champion for the battle of Brexit – and it's a familiar face to those in the City of London.

Michel Barnier, the EU's financial services commissioner until 2014, was on July 27 named by European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker to lead the negotiations over the UK's exit from the bloc.

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