{"id":393618,"date":"2019-01-21T13:40:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-has-best-possible-brexit-deal-claims-eu-chief-negotiator-michel-barnier-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T13:40:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:40:56","slug":"uk-has-best-possible-brexit-deal-claims-eu-chief-negotiator-michel-barnier-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-has-best-possible-brexit-deal-claims-eu-chief-negotiator-michel-barnier-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"UK has \u2018best possible Brexit deal,\u2019 claims EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/thumbnail\/5c45bb15fc7e936b078b45e2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 21 Jan, 2019 12:32 <\/span><span class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 21 Jan, 2019 12:39 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>        EU chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, has claimed that the UK-EU Withdrawal agreement is \u201cthe best possible deal,\u201d including the controversial Irish backstop, in an interview with Irish broadcaster RTE.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>Barnier insisted that Prime Minister Theresa May should focus on creating a strong majority within parliament for the Brexit deal brokered between the EU and the UK \u2013 adding that the bloc\u2019s focus is on the future relationship.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Barnier also dismissed reports that a bilateral deal between Ireland and the UK had been struck, insisting that the EU only negotiated as one team.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: the EU\u2019s chief negotiator Michel Barnier tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtenews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rtenews<\/a> the Withdrawal Agreement, including the Irish backstop, is \u201cthe best deal possible\u201d for the UK in the Brexit negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tconnellyRTE\/status\/1087317144587722754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>DETAILS TO FOLLOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/449328-barnier-best-deal-brexit\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 21 Jan, 2019 12:32 Edited time: 21 Jan, 2019 12:39 EU chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, has claimed that the UK-EU Withdrawal agreement is \u201cthe best possible deal,\u201d including the controversial Irish backstop, in an interview with Irish broadcaster RTE. Barnier insisted that Prime Minister Theresa May should focus on creating a strong majority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":393619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393618","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\/393618","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=393618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}