EU downbeat after Johnson-Juncker Brexit talks

LUXEMBOURG: Britain has not proposed any workable alternatives to its Brexit withdrawal agreement, the EU said on Monday after talks with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson ended without a breakthrough.failed to yield any alternative to proposals on the Northern Ireland border that the British leader has rejected.Johnson has vowed to take Britain out of the bloc by the scheduled date of Oct 31, though parliament has ordered him not to do so without striking a deal with Brussels first.

But the commission gave a more sober assessment, saying that once again the UK had failed to come up with a viable alternative to the so-called Irish"backstop" border arrangement. Finland's European affairs minister, Tytti Tuppurainen, who was chairing an EU ministerial meeting in Brussels, said London had not come up with detailed ideas for replacing the"backstop" section of the divorce deal.

Johnson insists this measure, which temporarily keeps the UK in the EU customs union, has to be removed if he is to bring the agreement back to the House of Commons. "Be in no doubt that if we cannot get a deal - the right deal for both sides - then the UK will come out anyway," Johnson said, writing in the Daily Telegraph on Monday.Speaking to the BBC on Sunday, Brexit Minister Stephen Barclay indicated that any post-Brexit transition period could be extended past 2020 in order to resolve issues with the border.

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