Tusk: Britain should start Brexit talks as soon as possible

European Council President Donald Tusk said on Thursday during his visit to London, where he met UK Prime Minister Theresa May, that Britain should start talks to leave the European Union as soon as possible. "Our goal (is) to establish closest possible EU-UK relations. The ball is in the UK's court to start negotiations. It is in everybody's best interest to start as soon as possible," Tusk said on Twitter. May has said Britain will not trigger Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty to start the exit procedure this year to give her government time to come up with a negotiating stance for the complicated talks that will shape the country's future standing, Reuters reminded.