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| Confirmed! Brexit deal brokered between May and EU - no hard border for N. Ireland | |
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| After hammering out the finer details in an early morning meeting, Theresa May and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker have struck a deal, allowing Brexit to advance to stage two which will see talks on the future trading relationship. | After hammering out the finer details in an early morning meeting, Theresa May and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker have struck a deal, allowing Brexit to advance to stage two which will see talks on the future trading relationship. |
| Theresa May, who arrived in Brussels before the sun was up has confirmed that there will be no hard border for Ireland, but the deal will maintain the integrity of the internal market in the UK. In a Friday morning news conference, she denied that the deal is any kind of special treatment for Northern Ireland. | Theresa May, who arrived in Brussels before the sun was up has confirmed that there will be no hard border for Ireland, but the deal will maintain the integrity of the internal market in the UK. In a Friday morning news conference, she denied that the deal is any kind of special treatment for Northern Ireland. |
| May said she will write to the people of Northern Ireland today “to set out our approach”. | May said she will write to the people of Northern Ireland today “to set out our approach”. |
| Juncker confirmed on Friday morning that a successful deal has been struck. | |
| “We have now made the breakthrough we needed,” he said. | |
| “Today I am hopeful that we are now all moving towards the second phase of these challenging negotiations. | |
| He said the agreement is “of course a compromise”. | |
| Following her early morning meeting with Juncker, May moved on to a meeting with President of the European Council Donald Tusk, who will need to add his stamp of approval before the deal can progress. | |
| The joint report from the EU negotiators and the UK Government, which will be tabled at a meeting of the European Council on December 14, sets out the arrangement in full. The agreement will not be considered complete until it has been ratified at next week’s meeting. | |
| In the report, the United Kingdom laid out its commitment to a soft Irish border. | |
| “The United Kingdom remains committed to protecting North-South cooperation and to its guarantee of avoiding a hard border....the United Kingdom will maintain full alignment with those rules of the Internal Market and the Customs Union which, now or in the future, support North-South cooperation, the all-island economy and the protection of the 1998 Agreement,” the report said. | |
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