UK Prime Minister Theresa May wrote in Die Welt newspaper that the agreement on an orderly Brexit is close be concluded. She said, “we are near to achieving the orderly withdrawal that is the essential basis for building a close future partnership.”
However, May also urged that “To come to a successful conclusion, just as the UK has evolved its position, the EU will need to do the same. Neither side can demand the unacceptable of the other, such as an external customs border between different parts of the United Kingdom.”
EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier also said yesterday that they “ready to improve” the Irish border backstop proposal. He added that “we are clarifying which goods arriving in Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K. would need to be checked, where, when and by whom these checks would be performed.”
