On Tuesday 22 January, the Commission urged the British government “to clarify its intentions as soon as possible” towards the EU and warned that an exit scenario without an agreement would necessarily involve returning to a “physical border” on the island of Ireland.
Spokesman Margaritis Schinas spoke the day after British Prime Minister Theresa May's speech to her Parliament (see EUROPE 12176) in which she indicated that she would continue to speak with all political forces, in...