Phil Hogan, the EU agriculture commissioner, said the government was waiting to see what the UK would propose today to solve the Irish border problem, but that the country had already excluded too many options. He criticised the “hysterics” over the EU legal text released this week, which said Northern Ireland should have the same regulations as the Republic if no other solution could be found around the issue of the border. “If you start off a negotiation with red lines like no customs union, no single market, no regulatory alignment, no ECJ, well then you run out of options,” he said. “There were other options in that text that allows the UK to bring forward proposals and we’re waiting to hear from them.

Source: The Times March 02, 2018 00:00 UTC