Maroš Šefčovič told EU European affairs ministers in Brussels that a meeting with the UK foreign secretary Liz Truss yesterday was "difficult" and "frustrating", according to one account of his briefing this afternoon.
Mr Šefčovič told ministers that Ms Truss wanted to renegotiate the Protocol and had sought changes to how state aid is handled. EU ministers are said to be concerned that the political upheavals around the UK prime minister Boris Johnson in Westminster are making an agreement by the end of February very difficult.
"It basically seems to mean, what does the Commission require in order to reduce checks and controls down to a very modest level, and what does the UK actually have at its disposal in order to satisfy the safeguard requirements of the EU?," says one diplomat.
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