{"id":380727,"date":"2018-10-12T23:45:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T22:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/optimism-over-brexit-talks-not-well-founded\/"},"modified":"2018-10-12T23:45:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T22:45:30","slug":"optimism-over-brexit-talks-not-well-founded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/optimism-over-brexit-talks-not-well-founded\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimism over Brexit talks \u2018not well founded\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney says optimism about an imminent breakthrough in Brexit talks is &#8220;probably not well founded,&#8221; and that the public should be realistic about time frames defined in negotiations between Britain and the European Union.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;I think that the optimism that we have read about in newspapers in recent days is probably not well founded. Nothing has been agreed yet,&#8221; Coveney told Ireland\u2019s RTE radio on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;There is very intensive efforts now to try and find the combinations for each other in terms of the two negotiating teams. But as I say we shouldn&#8217;t draw any conclusions from that. We don&#8217;t have any agreement yet. And I think we need to be realistic about time frames,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The Irish foreign minister said, however, that he hoped Brexit negotiators would be able to make a &#8220;big step forward&#8221; ahead of the EU summit in Brussels on October 18.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;The negotiating teams are hard at it this week and will probably be&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/12\/576822\/Ireland-Simon-Coveney-Brexit-European-Union\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney says optimism about an imminent breakthrough in Brexit talks is &#8220;probably not well founded,&#8221; and that the public should be realistic about time frames defined in negotiations between Britain and the European Union. &#8220;I think that the optimism that we have read about in newspapers in recent days is probably [&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-380727","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\/380727","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=380727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}