Simon Coveney said Brussels had not yet received and “credible” proposals from Britain JOHN THYS/AFP/GETTY IMAGESThe UK has only two weeks to propose alternatives to the backstop, Simon Coveney has said, with a month to agree a withdrawal agreement and prevent a no-deal Brexit. The tánaiste said the EU was still waiting for the British side to put forward “credible” alternatives. “I’m sure if he wanted five days of negotiations a week, the EU would be okay with that,” Mr Coveney said in Cork yesterday. “Michel Barnier is there as the chief negotiator for the EU for that purpose. He has a team that is ready to go, we…

Source: The Times September 30, 2019 22:52 UTC