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EU Parliament President David Sassoli, after meeting with Michel Barnier this morning: 'You can’t have an agreement without the backstop. It couldn’t really be any clearer. That’s the position of the EU Commission, the position of the EU institutions including the EU Parliament.'
Sassoli says: 'We’re not ruling anything out. If solutions are proposed they will be debated, all of them, provided they respect the guiding principles of the EU. But up to now I can say the UK hasn’t proposed any alternatives, anything that’s been legally credible and workable.'
Sassoli says possible options include returning to the EU's original proposal for a Northern Ireland only backstop and revisiting the Political Declaration 'and making it into a legally binding document'. These points are included in an EP resolution to be voted on next week.
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PM Johnson: 'Today in Brussels we are tabling what I believe are constructive and reasonable proposals which provide a compromise for both sides. We will under no circumstances have checks at or near the border in Northern Ireland...
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1/ EU officials and diplomats were dismayed by last night's furore in Parliament, and events in general over the past few weeks. They have left them questioning how they will deal for years - even decades - to come with a Britain that looks increasingly divided and dysfunctional.
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