The European Union is concerned about the link that the British seem to be making between maintaining the peace process in Northern Ireland after Brexit and the UK's future post-Brexit trade relationship with the EU.
"It is very important that the peace process does not become a bargaining chip in these negotiations", a European source stated on Friday 25 August.
The EU is holding to the line it has drawn on the negotiation process for the UK's withdrawal from the EU – settling the...