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EU struggling to make legal sense of May's Irish pledges, say officials

European Commission struggling to translate UK's Brexit pledges on Ireland into a legally binding text, even before presented to UK in negotiations, according to people familiar with the EU side

bloomberg

08.02.2018

In a deal agreed in December to unlock divorce talks, prime minister Theresa May guaranteed no hard border will re-emerge on the island of Ireland after Brexit, through a series of cascading solutions. As a fall-back option, May agreed Northern Ireland will play by the same EU rules that apply in the south if all else fails.

Ireland, backed by the EU, wants detail underpinning those pledges included in the withdrawal agreement that will formalise the terms of Britain's exit from the bloc.