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Juncker and May next Brexit meeting at end of February
By EUobserver
EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and British prime minister Theresa May had a "robust, but constructive" meeting on Thursday, according to a joint statement. May asked for renegotiating the Brexit deal on the Irish backstop, which Juncker ruled out, stressing the EU-27 is open to discussing more ambitious UK-EU future relations. Negotiating teams will nevertheless continue talks. May and Juncker will meet again at the end of February.