Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the path to a breakthough on Brexit remaine...
FILE PHOTO: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe hold a joint news conference in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, January 9, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo
With just three weeks left before Britain is due to leave the European Union, May used the expression in a last-ditch appeal to the European Union and a deeply divided domestic parliament. Rutte said May’s plan to amend her withdrawal agreement to secure parliamentary approval was unclear, and reiterated that British “red lines” for talks with the EU were preventing a solution.
London and Brussels are at loggerheads over the backstop, an insurance policy to prevent the return of border controls between Northern Ireland and Ireland - the only land frontier between the United Kingdom and the bloc.He then suggested a supplementary, non-legally binding letter from European Council President Donald Tusk and other senior EU officials on details of the deal might help move negotiations forward.
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