Brexit: UK and EU hail breakthrough in talks
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(Worthy News) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday that she had secured legal guarantees from the European Union that should convince British lawmakers to back her Brexit deal.
The guarantees would ensure that the deal’s most controversial provision, the so-called Irish backstop, would only apply temporarily after the UK leaves the EU on March 29.
“MPs were clear that legal changes were needed to the [Irish] backstop. Today we have secured legal changes,” May told reporters at a joint press conference with EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. [ Source: Deutche Welle (Read More…) ]
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