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UK and EU still ‘far apart’ on Northern Ireland trade

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High-level talks will resume next week between the European Union and United Kingdom on rules governing trade in Northern Ireland but the two sides remain “far apart on the big issues,” a British government source said Saturday.

  • Laurens Cerulus
  • Politico

While insisting the U.K. government wants a speedy solution on the Northern Ireland Protocol, the source repeated London would not accept oversight by the EU’s highest court as part of a deal.

EU officials will travel to London on Tuesday for talks on the mechanism that was set up to avoid a hard border between the north and the south of Ireland.

The mechanism was…

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