Arlene Foster, the leader of the Northern Irish Unionist party, the DUP, an ally of British Prime Minister, Theresa May, said in Brussels on Tuesday 6 March that the plans to resolve the Irish question presented by the European Commission on 28 February (see EUROPE 11971) were unacceptable.
The DUP leader was in Brussels to meet the EU's Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, whom she told that the EU had no right to propose a solution that consisted of keeping Northern Ireland in the customs...