16/06/2021 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission was not “aware” by midday on Wednesday 16 June of a request from the UK government to extend the end of the grace periods, including controls on chilled meat shipments from Britain to Northern Ireland. “We have asked and suggested to the EU that the best way forward would be to approve an extension of the grace period, at least for a while,” Minister David Frost told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday morning, hoping the EU...