London - The European Union on Tuesday rebuffed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s demand that it reopen the Brexit divorce deal, saying Britain had failed to propose any realistic alternative to an agreed insurance policy for the Irish border.
Johnson proposed that the backstop - part of the Withdrawal Agreement that then-prime minister Theresa May agreed last year - be replaced with a “commitment” to implement alternative arrangements as part of a deal on the post-Brexit relationship. A note seen by Reuters setting out the agreed joint position of the 27 EU states staying on after Brexit said the EU regretted Johnson’s bid to scrap a “necessary, legally operative solution” in favour of a “commitment to try to find a solution”..
The riddle of what to do about Ireland’s 500-km land border with the British province of Northern Ireland has repeatedly imperilled Brexit talks. The United Kingdom does not want there to be any border - effective or virtual - between Britain and Northern Ireland. Johnson’s government is propped up by Northern Irish unionists.
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