{"id":350340,"date":"2018-03-01T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T13:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-tusk-sure-eu-will-accept-controversial-brexit-draft-treaty\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T13:45:23","slug":"presstv-tusk-sure-eu-will-accept-controversial-brexit-draft-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-tusk-sure-eu-will-accept-controversial-brexit-draft-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Tusk &#8216;sure&#8217; EU will accept controversial Brexit draft treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>EU President Donald Tusk said Thursday he was &#8220;absolutely sure&#8221; the bloc&#8217;s members would accept a draft treaty for Brexit that has stirred anger in London over its provisions for Northern Ireland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am absolutely sure that all the essential elements of the draft will be accepted by all,&#8221; Tusk told business leaders in Brussels, saying EU states would review the text in the coming week.<\/p>\n<p>British Prime Minister Theresa May angrily rejected the draft unveiled on Wednesday, saying she would never allow the bloc to undermine her country&#8217;s &#8220;constitutional integrity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She took particular aim at a proposal to keep British-ruled Northern Ireland in a customs union if there is no better solution to avoid a hard border with EU-member Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Tusk said if May didn&#8217;t like the proposal, she should come up with an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until now, no-one has come up with anything wiser than that (plan),&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a few hours I will be asking in London whether&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/03\/01\/553985\/Tusk-absolutely-sure-EU-will-accept-controversial-Brexit-draft-treaty\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU President Donald Tusk said Thursday he was &#8220;absolutely sure&#8221; the bloc&#8217;s members would accept a draft treaty for Brexit that has stirred anger in London over its provisions for Northern Ireland. &#8220;I am absolutely sure that all the essential elements of the draft will be accepted by all,&#8221; Tusk told business leaders in Brussels, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}