EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier asked his UK counterpart Dominic Raab to provide technical data on how checks and controls might work in the event that the so-called backstop at the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland entered into life.
Barnier on Friday (31 August) told reporters after several hours of talks with UK Brexit secretary Raab in Brussels that agreeing to a legally operational backstop was a matter of "urgency".
"It is urgent to work on the...
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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.