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EU’s Sefcovic says N.Ireland Brexit talks will ‘probably’ drag into next year – Politico

cde.news desk 24 November 2021, 09:00 · 1 min read

epa08039510 Vice-President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic speaks during the Plenary Meeting of the LXII Conference of the committees of the national Parliaments of the European Union Member States (COSAC) in Helsinki, Finland, 02 December 2019. The COSAC runs from 01 to 03 December 2019. EPA-EFE/KIMMO BRANDT

Nov 23 (Reuters) – Talks between the European Union and Britain on Northern Ireland trade rules will “probably” continue into next year, the vice president of the European Commission, Maros Sefcovic, told Politico.

“I think that if there was the clear political will from the UK side these … problems could be solved,” Sefcovic said in an interview. “But looking at how far we progressed over the last four weeks, the level of detail our UK partners want to discuss, I know that we will probably not be able to resolve everything before the end of the year.”

(Reporting by Shivam Patel in Bengaluru Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

Photo – Vice-President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic. EPA-EFE/KIMMO BRANDT