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EU BREXIT negotiator Michel Barnier said yesterday that Britain must come forward with proposals to avoid a “hard” border in Ireland .
In a speech to the Centre for European Reform think tank in Brussels, Mr Barnier said it was up to Britain to come up with a solution of how to avoid border posts between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
“I expect the UK, as co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement, to come forward with proposals,” he said, again raising the spectre of cuts in EU peace funding.
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
