What is the 'backstop' and why does it remain a major sticking point in Brexit talks?

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What is the 'backstop' and why does it remain a major sticking point in Brexit talks?
- A meeting of EU leaders this week has long been signalled as the key deadline for making some progress, particularly on the question of the Irish ...
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Why Brussels seems relaxed about the end game

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Why Brussels seems relaxed about the end game - The EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, is now selling hard the idea that the UK can change its mind during the transition period and choose to stay part of the European single market and customs union - particularly with a view to solving the Irish border issue. This would be the ideal post- Brexit  ..
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We know what conservative populism is now thanks to Brexit and Trump, this is progressive ...

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We know what conservative populism is now thanks to Brexit and Trump, this is progressive ... - But here it can also includes artists expressing the Irish post-colonial experience of living in a country that was once under British rule and still dealing with the after effects of that almost 100 years after independence. For Rollefson – who emigrated to Ireland from the US four years ago – similar themes ..
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