Sources: EU to reject UK Brexit plan for the Irish border - Bloomberg

Bloomberg quotes three people familiar with the European Union (EU) position, as saying that the EU officials are set to reject a potential UK solution to the crucial issue of what happens to the Irish border after Brexit, deepening the stalemate in negotiations.

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“While the U.K. hasn’t made a formal proposal, it has indicated that the bloc’s “backstop” solution for maintaining an invisible border should apply to the whole of the U.K.

But the European Commission opposes it and only wants to offer that special status to Northern Ireland.”