{"id":371893,"date":"2018-08-03T00:13:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T23:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-eu-ready-to-compromise-on-irish-border\/"},"modified":"2018-08-03T00:13:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T23:13:08","slug":"presstv-eu-ready-to-compromise-on-irish-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-eu-ready-to-compromise-on-irish-border\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-EU ready to compromise on Irish border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The European Union&#8217;s chief negotiator for the United\u00a0Kingdom&#8217;s departure from the bloc has announced that Brussels is ready to compromise on the thorny issue of the Irish border to help the two sides avoid a so-called no-deal Brexit.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are ready to improve the text of our proposal with the UK,\u201d Michel Barnier said on Thursday in a major development in disputes regarding the future of the border between EU member Ireland and the UK province of Northern Ireland, according to the\u00a0<em>Daily Express.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The EU has already proposed that there should be a backstop mechanism for regulating trade and other issues on the border when Britain leaves the EU. The British government has rejected the idea saying Northern Ireland would be \u201cannexed\u201d if it is to remain in a common regulatory area for goods and customs with the rest of the EU, as it is proposed in the backstop plan.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20180802\/06c82721-826c-4c56-a9ce-f33353ff3d3f.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>EU Chief Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier (R) and Britain&#8217;s Secretary of&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/02\/569997\/EU-Brexit-UK-Barnier-Irish-border\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union&#8217;s chief negotiator for the United\u00a0Kingdom&#8217;s departure from the bloc has announced that Brussels is ready to compromise on the thorny issue of the Irish border to help the two sides avoid a so-called no-deal Brexit.\u00a0 \u201cWe are ready to improve the text of our proposal with the UK,\u201d Michel Barnier said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371893","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=371893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}