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Juncker to meet Johnson on Monday
By EUobserver
EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker will hold a working lunch with UK prime minister Boris Johnson in Luxembourg on Monday, the commission said. The UK is to leave the bloc on 31 October, following a key EU summit on 17 October in Brussels. The EU has been waiting for the UK to lay out plans to replace the backstop in the divorce deal aimed at avoiding a hard Irish border.