#customs posts

LONDON | The Latest: UK Cabinet to discuss draft Brexit deal

LONDON — The Latest on negotiations over Britain’s exit from the European Union (all times local):

5 p.m. British Prime Minister Theresa May‘s office has confirmed that the Cabinet will meet Wednesday to consider a draft divorce deal with the European Union.

Downing Street says negotiators from the U.K. and EU have reached a proposed agreement on Britain’s withdrawal terms, which now needs…

LONDON | UK’s May: I won’t agree on a Brexit deal ‘at any cost’

LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May said Tuesday that she wouldn’t agree to a Brexit deal with the European Union “at any cost,” as the two sides remained deadlocked on the issue of the Irish border.

May briefed her Cabinet on progress toward an elusive divorce deal with the bloc. Talks are stuck on finding a way to ensure there are no customs posts or other checks along the border…

LONDON | UK PM May: I won’t agree on a Brexit deal ‘at any cost’

LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May says Britain aims to reach a Brexit deal with the European Union as soon as possible, but that it can’t come “at any cost.”

May on Tuesday briefed her Cabinet on progress toward an elusive divorce deal with the bloc. Talks are stuck on finding a way to ensure there are no customs posts or other checks along the border between the U.K.’s Northern Ireland…

BRUSSELS | The Latest: EU could extend UK’s post-Brexit transition

BRUSSELS — The Latest on Britain’s upcoming exit from the European Union (all times local):

1:50 p.m.

Ireland’s foreign minister says the European Union is open to extending Britain’s post-Brexit transition period so that a permanent solution can be found to the Irish border problem.

Under current proposals, Britain will remain inside EU rules from the time it leaves the bloc in March until…

LONDON | Brexit deal getting closer, European Commission chief says

LONDON  — A European Union chief says the chances of Britain and the bloc striking a Brexit deal are rising, amid reports the two sides are moving closer on the fraught issue of the Irish border.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told Austrian newspapers in comments published Saturday that “the rapprochement potential between both sides has increased in recent days.”

Negotiations…

Entering the EU legally… post #BrExit guide

The British Prime Minister, Theresa May has said that she doesn’t want the borders of the past on the island of Ireland. She, like many, keeps saying

“But we’ve had a common travel area between the UK and the Republic of Ireland many years before either country was a member of the European Union.”

BBC News, 25 July 2016.

Whilst she most certainly is correct about the past, what seems to have…

#myEUstory : County Antrim, Paris, Gibrlatar, and Dublin

Growing up in Northern Ireland, I was always aware of one border: that between the UK and Ireland. Further borders between the UK and France, France and Germany, and so on, they were ideas I read about, nothing I thought I would experience myself.

Most of my school friends had been on foreign holidays to Spain or France. But, as a family, we had not been further than Cornwall, or more foreign…