The Vice-President of the European Commission, Maroš Šefčovič, and the UK Minister for European Affairs, David Frost, met again, on Friday 19 November in Brussels, to make progress in the negotiations on the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland. But they failed to agree on the rules on generic medicines that the Commission had proposed to change on 13 October (see EUROPE B12811A14).
While the Commission had hoped for an agreement on the issue this week, Mr Šefčovič “reaffirmed...