The EU's Chief Negotiator on the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union, Michel Barnier, informed the Twenty-Seven European Affairs Ministers meeting in the General Affairs Council (Article 50 format) on Monday 12 November in Brussels that an agreement “had not yet been reached” with London, although both sides are continuing "their intensive negotiating efforts".
The key issue to be resolved remains: how to avoid the return of a physical border between Ireland and...