Expectations grow that EU and UK are on brink of a deal
He told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme said: “What we want to hear most importantly is where the negotiations have reached in removing the automatic application of EU law to Northern Ireland without any democratic input from the representatives in Northern Ireland and without any ability to change those laws if they are detrimental to Northern Ireland.
“We want to be in a problem-solving mode, but the problem is not caused by us. The problem is caused by the application of the protocol ... part of which we believe are unnecessary and the government has said should be changed.” “If the issue of being part of the single market rules and single market laws is removed from Northern Ireland, then there’s no need for the European Court of Justice,” he said.
The momentum towards a deal is clearly growing. EU ambassadors have been called to a meeting with EU chief negotiator Maroš Šefčovič in Brussels on Friday, after Mr Šefčovič meets the British foreign secretary James Cleverly and the Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris.
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