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British prime minister Rishi Sunak and EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Munich last weekend. Will they meet again soon? (Photo: Number 10, Flickr)

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UK's Sunak edges towards closing post-Brexit trade deal

We might be days away from the most painful European divorce, Brexit, to be over — at least on paper.

British prime minister Rishi Sunak faced a grilling in the UK parliament from hardline Brexiteers and the opposition Labour party on Wednesday (22 February), as he aimed to clinch a deal with the EU on the post-Brexit trade rules in Northern Ireland.

Sunak in the last few days has been intensively seeking the blessing of the loyalist Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), and his Cons...

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

British prime minister Rishi Sunak and EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Munich last weekend. Will they meet again soon? (Photo: Number 10, Flickr)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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