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In search of a Brexit deal, British PM May to visit Brussels

Updated: 2019-02-05 23:19
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British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to open a debate in the House of Commons on amendments to her plan for Brexit, which could shape future talks with the E, .London, UK, 29 Jan 2019. [Photo/Agencies]

LONDON/BRUSSELS - UK Prime Minister Theresa May will travel to Brussels on Thursday to tell European Union leaders they must accept legally binding changes to the Irish border arrangements of the divorce deal or face the prospect of a disorderly no-deal Brexit.

The United Kingdom is due to leave the EU in just 52 days, yet London and Brussels are arguing over whether the deal clinched in November can be changed, raising the possibility of a delay to Brexit, a last-minute deal or a no-deal exit.

Since British lawmakers voted down the withdrawal agreement last month, parliament has instructed May to replace its most contentious element - an insurance policy covering the possible future arrangements for the border between EU-member Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will receive May in Brussels on Thursday.

"The European Union's position is clear," spokesman Margaritis Schinas said. "We are expecting, waiting once again to hear what the prime minister has to tell us."

May will try to use a visit to Northern Ireland on Tuesday to reassure communities that she can deliver an orderly Brexit that will ensure peace in a province riven by three decades of sectarian conflict until a 1998 accord.

The Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which has propped up May's government since she lost her parliamentary majority in a 2017 snap election, said it wanted to get a deal agreed but made clear the border backstop had to be replaced.

"The current backstop, as I have said all along, is toxic to those of us living in Northern Ireland," DUP leader Arlene Foster, who will meet May in Belfast on Wednesday, told BBC radio.

Foster refused to say whether the deal would have to be renegotiated or whether she would accept legally binding assurances.

"If the backstop is dealt with in the withdrawal agreement then, despite the fact we may have misgivings around other parts of the withdrawal agreement, we will support the prime minister because we do want Brexit to happen in an orderly and sustained fashion," she said.

Britain, Ireland and the EU want to avoid physical checks on the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland that ceased with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

IRISH BORDER

Where British soldiers once manned checkpoints in a reminder of Ireland's division, the border is now open with no controls as both the United Kingdom and Ireland are part of the EU.

But when the United Kingdom leaves the EU's Single Market and Customs Union the EU does not want the 310-mile (500-km) border to become a backdoor into the bloc without customs and regulatory checks.

As a way to prevent a hard border, Brussels and London agreed a so-called backstop - basically a promise that unless the sides come up with a better idea then the United Kingdom would remain bound by EU market and customs rules so that goods would not have to be checked.

The backstop is the most contentious part of the rejected deal in Britain. The DUP says it could endanger Northern Ireland's place in the United Kingdom while Brexit supporters in May's Conservative Party fear being locked into EU rules long-term.

May told senior British ministers that she aimed to get changes that ensure the United Kingdom could not be trapped indefinitely in the backstop.

The EU will not renegotiate the divorce deal and the Irish backstop but alternatives could be worked on after Britain leaves, chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier said on Monday.

There is little appetite for a no-deal Brexit in the EU and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the bloc's most powerful leader, has called for creativity to break the Brexit impasse.

"From a political point of view, there is still time," Merkel told an economic conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.

As Brussels waits for Britain to set out its plans, diplomats and officials in the rest of the EU are increasingly expecting a delay to Brexit.

"It could only be a few weeks, until late May or early July. And not that we know that it would get us anywhere. But it would buy us some time," an EU diplomat dealing with Brexit said.

Reuters

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