May’s last-gasp dash to Strasbourg, the midnight press conference with Juncker … EU officials and politicians looked on with growing incredulity

It’s not just new rules that will cause headaches — but the fact they vary from one member state to the next

Nicola Sturgeon ist überzeugt, dass die Schotten bei einem weiteren Referendum für die Unabhängigkeit von Großbritannien stimmen werden. Von Boris Johnson will sie sich bei ihren Plänen nicht...

London strategises gormlessness to avoid taking responsibility for its actions

Tensions over a possible ‘sausage war’ between the UK and EU are brewing. How will leaders solve this Brexit-imposed trade dispute?

Labour leader accuses British prime minister of ‘reckless’ approach to peace process

Irish diplomats set the terms of the Brexit talks long before the British caught on. Here’s how they pulled it off.

Businesses will discover details of customs regime after Brexit on Monday

Differing interpretations of how ‘review clause’ might work speak to EU-UK divide

All sides have a responsibility to ease tensions but the biggest, post-Brexit, rests with the UK and EU

Despite shift, few want to rejoin the single market, according to survey for the Tony Blair Institute

Boris and Trump fill key positions based on loyalty rather than competence

‘If you were looking at this from the moon, you would think: how is this being allowed to happen?’

Britain and the EU seem closer than ever to a deal, but Salzburg showed the mood music can quickly change.

Pascal Lamy, the former EU commissioner, says broad outline of EU-UK trade could be agreed by year-end

New German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has Boris Johnson firmly in his sights.

It puzzles many people in Britain that something known as an "Irish backstop" should be at the heart of an increasingly bitter dispute. The dispute is abou...

Minister says status quo not sustainable as some states advocate possibility of tariffs

Ironic to be seen as ‘bogey man’ over protocol as office pushed for compromise with EU, says Minister

Two big setbacks in June 2017 forced prime minister to face grim reality

Tánaiste alludes to no deal after Brexit secretary Raab suggests backstop ‘alternative’

Pessimism pervades across all EU institutions at the end of the last scheduled round of talks between London and Brussels.

There are concerns in Brussels and Dublin that both Boris Johnson and the DUP are manipulating a tense situation to undermine a Protocol. Given the tensions, the threats and ultimatums, can the EU...

An agreement by the end of the year will be ‘very difficult, but it is possible,’ EU negotiator says.

Industry figures in North reject British ‘dual regulatory regime’ concept as unworkable

Matthew Coats’ departure ‘puzzling and alarming’, says Whitehall source

'Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves, that if the British empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will ...

Germans say UK media has misinterpreted chancellor’s stance on Irish backstop

On 26 July 2016, just over one month after the Brexit Referendum, Enda Kenny had lunch with Theresa May in Downing Street. Afterwards, the former taoiseach said: "We are both agreed very firmly there...

Almost three out of five voters in Northern Ireland favour a “border in the Irish Sea” compromise on Brexit to avoid up to 40,000 job losses and an economic shock for its food and farming sectors, a...

Tánaiste says EU Brexit group must receive written plans in advance of crunch summit

Move comes after months of talks with Brussels over post-Brexit arrangements

Representative body warns firms would simply not fill out forms moving goods to Britain

The priest’s words had Northern Ireland’s politicians squirming in their seats. “Why in God’s name,” thundered Father Martin Magill, “does it take the death of a 29-year-old woman with her whole life...

Consequences of EU departure and impact on trading with Britain begin to bite for London

Sammy Wilson’s Westminster performance underlines how the party is now isolated

Boris Johnson’s internal market bill hardens bloc’s resolve to secure retaliation rights

The EU is the glue that holds the UK together. Devolution and the Good Friday agreement are now under grave threat, says professor of government Vernon Bogdanor

Bei seinem Besuch in Dublin erinnert Bundespräsident Steinmeier das Vereinigte Königreich an die Pflichten, die es im Nordirland-Protokoll eingegangen ist.

We have all been trying to find something in Brexit that can unite us, heal us, bring us all together. We haven’t done too well so far. But I’m excited to say that I think I’ve found a contender: we...

London Letter: Johnson says outrage over Commons episode could add to difficulty

With Britain’s other trade talks seeing delays and setbacks, Brussels thinks it has the upper hand, but a breakthrough isn’t imminent.

Planned internal market bill will contradict obligations in withdrawal agreement on Northern Ireland and state aid

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald critical of Britain’s ‘Ireland last’ policy

Taoiseach also asserts ‘wide gap’ remains between EU and UK on achieving goals

Incoming EU-UK border checks force Irish traders to consider other routes to customers

Calling the peace deal into question raises doubts about the DUP leader’s judgment

UK’s push to remove EU judges as final arbiter of protocol seen as ‘Brexit purity issue’

The European Commission has said there is an "urgent need" for the UK to present a detailed timetable on how it will prepare for customs formalities for goods moving from Great Britain to Northern...

The UK is showing signs of buyer’s remorse over what it agreed to in December

Brexit has given us a new species and a strange, new phenomenon – the harmful eccentric

Businesses switch from UK landbridge to avoid post-Brexit border controls

Applications from England, Scotland and Wales up by more than a fifth since 2017

EU’s chief Brexit negotiator says it is difficult to see a way to break the Brexit impasse

Irish Government lurches from elation to dejection after DUP forces May into U-turn

Arlene Foster has no mandate to push for a hard Brexit, says academic Conor Gearty

It’s as if a genie appeared and said: ‘Here, have your national dream.’ But they now aren’t sure

The DUP has threatened to unite with Labour to back a customs union this week as it warned it will unleash “guerilla warfare” to bring down Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.

With a 31 December deadline in place, European officials believe elements of the deal on the future relationship between the UK and EU will have to be prioritised. The question is, which elements?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson he has 30 days to come up with an alternative solution to replace the backstop.

The DUP has said it will vote down Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal this Saturday and warned that no amount of money can win them over, despite attempts by Downing Street to offer a new financial package...

Taoiseach says UK prime minister must resolve difficulties in her government

Saturday March 2nd, 2019

Northern Ireland business groups say Brexit ‘won’t make a lot of difference at all’

Denis Staunton: Give them an inch and they'll take a mile...

London Letter: Frost avoids using the word renegotiation and stresses desire for agreed solution

EU’s chief negotiator visits Dublin prior to giving speech at Queen’s University, Belfast

At present 35% of the North’s milk pool is processed at facilities in the Republic

Meeting of EU leaders this month will instead focus on post-Covid recovery and China relations

Chris Johns: The UK still doesn’t realise it can’t divide and rule the other EU members