The government said it had met hundreds of businesses and other interested parties to discuss Brexit over the previous year.
Regarding the future relationship with the EU, Davis said Britain has not changed its position, reiterating that Britain will leave the single market and the customs union, which is "the only way" to allow Britain to develop free trade agreements with non-EU countries.
"Davis said the row of the summer would be over the sequencing of Brexit talks, and one day in he has capitulated", he said.
Barnier said there will be one week of negotiations every month and the two sides will use the time in between to work out proposals.
In April and May, British Prime Minister May and the European Union leaders engaged in a war of words over each other's demands long before the start of the negotiations for Brexit.
The EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier said: "We are talking about orderly withdrawal first and that makes sense".
Discussions will therefore focus on the financial settlement that the United Kingdom must pay for its current and promised obligations to the European Union; the rights of European Union citizens in the United Kingdom and those of United Kingdom citizens living in the European Union; how to avoid a hard border between Ireland and the United Kingdom which will become an external European Union border after Brexit and protect the Good Friday agreement.
At the same time, while it was a priority, he said, to show progress in averting difficulties for troubled Northern Ireland as a result of being on a new EU-UK border, agreement on how the border would work would depend on wider future trade ties.
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"In the first phase, the negotiation rounds will be broken down into three groups: citizens' rights, the single financial settlement, and other separation issues", Barnier said.
"We will nearly certainly need an implementation period, outside the (EU's) customs union itself, but with current customs border arrangements remaining in place, until new long-term arrangements are up and running", he said, in a speech yesterday. We have taken the first, critical steps together.
Germany believes the opening of Brexit talks has exposed Britain's weak hand, and questions whether Theresa May's government will last the course.
Davis brushed off a suggestion that a weakened Conservative government had dropped objections to a Brussels timetable, which would deal first with European Union priorities, including its demand Britain settle a "Brexit bill", and leave the talks on free trade that May wants until at least late this year.
"It's not when it starts it's how it finishes that matters", he said. This uncompromising stance is "not about punishment" or "revenge", but simply a effect of Britain's decision to exit, he said.
Britain has less than two years to negotiate the terms of the divorce and the outlines of the future relationship before it is due to leave in late March 2019.
I'm not in a frame of mind to make concessions.
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