{"id":92040,"date":"2018-05-17T15:35:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6d559aaa25708307ff1a4e0f6223f98e"},"modified":"2018-05-17T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:35:59","slug":"news-story-pm-meetings-with-president-juncker-and-president-tusk-and-taoiseach-varadkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=92040","title":{"rendered":"News story: PM meetings with President Juncker and President Tusk and Taoiseach Varadkar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a trilateral meeting at the Western Balkans Summit in Sofia, the Prime Minister discussed the Brexit negotiations with President Juncker and President Tusk.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders discussed the positive progress which had been made in the talks so far, including agreements on citizens\u2019 rights and other matters.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister reiterated the UK\u2019s commitment to the joint report agreed in December.<\/p>\n<p>She said the proposal put forward by the European Commission in relation to the Ireland\/Northern Ireland border was unacceptable. The PM said the UK would be shortly putting forward its own backstop proposal in relation to customs.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders spoke of the need for a strong security partnership between the UK and the EU post-Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister also held a bilateral meeting with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">They agreed on their shared commitment to avoid a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland and on the need to continue talks on the way forward.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Theresa May held meetings at the Western Balkans Summit with President Jean-Claude Juncker and President Donald Tusk and with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar of Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}