Brexit negotiations "have been difficult" and "no solution has been identified" to the Irish backstop, the European Commission has said.

"We can’t allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit. Any trade deal between the U.S. and U.K. must be contingent upon respect for the Agreement and preventing the return of a hard border. Period."

EU negotiator signals future relationship negotiations are on course for acrimonious start.

PM urged to recognise pursuit of no-deal Brexit would be regarded as serious error by US.

In a move rarely seen between allies, Washington issued London with a demarche: a formal diplomatic reprimand usually reserved for adversaries.

A series of demonstrations will be held along the Border next week telling UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to "back off" on plans to trigger Article 16.

It could take 10 years to develop a technical solution for a frictionless Irish border after Brexit a trade expert has told MPs.

Boris Johnson could unveil legislation to override parts of the Brexit agreement he struck, tearing up the Northern Ireland Protocol which prevents a hard border with the Republic

Remarks come as foreign secretary Dominic Raab visits Washington for meetings with senior US politicians.

PM risks major confrontation with Joe Biden by persevering with internal market bill.

Downing Street beats a hasty retreat after leak shows backsliding on Good Friday Agreement pledges. / There is near-unanimous political outrage in Ireland over a leaked British government plan to throw up a “buffer zone” with customs posts on the Irish border. Parties across the political spectrum branded it “out of the question”.

Boris Johnson became prime minister on the promise that Brexit would bring prosperity and pride. Did it?

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said that the Cabinet’s Brexit sub-committee met on Monday to “essentially dust down and restart contingency preparations” in case a trade war develops with the UK.

A united Ireland could emerge within the next 25 years given the "disaster" created by Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, a former British government cabinet minister has predicted.

The Border is a sticking point in Brexit negotiations, but why?

EU and UK negotiators reach a new Brexit agreement that would avoid a hard border.

Molotov cocktails and barricades have returned to Northern Ireland. The conflict there is 4 centuries old. But Brexit is the new reason why the situation has reached the boiling point in what had been an era of peace.

Economic advantages of NI’s new trading arrangement overlooked by rejectionist rhetoric.

Lord Frost said the deal that he negotiated had "begun to come apart even more quickly than we feared"

Newly elected Brexit Party MEP elect Martin Daubney suffered a bruising encounter with BBC Radio Ulster’s Stephen Nolan who challenged him on what the party’s policy would be towards the Irish border.

Mr Raab goes to Washington, Mr Miliband goes to town on Mr Johnson in another busy, busy Brexit week. Europe Editor Tony Connelly, London Correspondent Seán Whelan and Deputy Foreign Editor Colm Ó Mongáin look at the continuing external waves being made by the Internal Market Bill and go-slow negotiations.

As it has already been well documented that Brexit proved to be a political and economic disaster for all sections of our divided society, it should not come as a surprise to learn that it has also had a hugely negative impact on community relations.

Economic and political disenfranchisement are key drivers in the current swell of political violence in Northern Ireland, writes Séamas O'Reilly.

Britain imports radioactive isotopes to detect and cure cancer. Border chaos at Dover would make them useless in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

European Union judges must have a role overseeing Northern Ireland’s Brexit arrangements, a senior EU official has said in rejection to British demands.

Buying a ham sandwich in Derry and walking across the Border to eat it in Donegal could be illegal from Saturday week, an act of smuggling. As could that family weekly supermarket shopping trip to Newry from Dundalk.

UK PM Boris Johnson had been wildly happy about his new EU exit deal; then he introduced a law undermining both it, and the last round of trade negotiations. Speaking with two former permanent secretaries of the UK’s EU exit department, Matt Ross asks whether Johnson is applying firm leverage – or deliberately sabotaging the trade talks.

The creation of a dual regulatory system in Northern Ireland would create a series of reputational, legal and commercial risks for local businesses, the Government has been warned.

European Union governments agreed on the need for "robust" action against Britain if London follows through on its threat to escalate a post-Brexit trade dispute, EU diplomats said on Wednesday.

As the EU and UK continue to prepare for the trade negotiations, there are clear signs that all is not well when it comes to implementing the divorce part of Brexit, in particular the Irish Protocol.

Ireland’s Leo Varadkar says PM’s pledge of no hard border contradicts written proposal.

EU says prime minister presented no real proposals and seems to seek return of hard border in Ireland.

The EU is expected to launch legal action against the UK government on Wednesday over its decision to scrap some post-Brexit trade arrangements.

The European Union sued Britain on Wednesday (local time) over its move to rewrite the trade rules agreed to when the country left the EU two years ago, ratcheting up tensions between the major economic partners.

The EU has announced new legal action against the UK government over its plans to scrap parts of the post-Brexit deal for Northern Ireland.

European Council President Donald Tusk said on Tuesday British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s demands to drop the Brexit backstop came with no “realistic alternatives” and amounted to seeking a return to controls along the sensitive Irish border.

MPs claim failure to implement a robust customs regime in Northern Ireland will lead to international criminals, including drug traffickers, making plans to target a soft border.

The Chairman of the US House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee has issued a fresh warning that there will be no trade deal between the US and the UK if Brexit leads to the return of a hard border.

Simon Byrne says his officers could be killed if they had to patrol border checkpoints.

The United States would not strike a wideranging trade deal with Britain after Brexit if a hard border was restored between Ireland and Northern Ireland, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said on Monday.

Brexiteer Steve Baker, who is now a Northern Ireland Minister, has apologised for his 'ferocious' stance on negotiations with the EU.

The course of Brexit was set in the hours and days after the 2016 referendum. / It was at 6:22 a.m. on June 24, 2016 — 59 minutes before the official tally was unveiled — that the European Council sent its first “lines to take” to the national governments that make up the EU.

THE impact of Brexit is "worse or much worse than expected", according to around half of those surveyed for a new study led by Queen’s University Belfast.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warning that he will strongly oppose any U.S.-U.K. Trade deal that undermines the Good Friday Agreement. In the letter, Leader Schumer also tells the Trump administration to stop over-promising an unconditional and unrealistic post-Brexit trade agreement with the United Kingdom.

Survey reveals devastating emotional impact as people in area fear return of hard border.

Foreign minister says UK should admit what it has signed up to.

Fiach Kelly: The main threat from a crashout is political and constitutional, not economic.

No hint of contrition or constructiveness in article by Lord Frost and Brandon Lewis... just menace.

The EU's former chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, says changes the UK wants to make to the Northern Ireland protocol have caused him to lose trust because what is at stake is not goods or trade but peace.

THE Garda Commissioner says additional policing will be needed to patrol the border in the event of a hard Brexit.

A WARNING by the powerful Irish-American business lobby that a US-UK trade deal would be blocked in the event of a hard Brexit has been welcomed by nationalists.

New IRA says border infrastructure would be ‘legitimate target for attack’. In an interview with Channel 4 News, the group said it was committed to ‘armed actions’ against border infrastructure – and ‘the people who are manning them’.

SF MLA says changes to withdrawal deal would drive ‘coach and horses’ through Belfast Agreement.

THE Tory peer who for the past decade was his party’s most senior adviser on Northern Ireland has warned of adverse consequences for the union if Boris Johnson fails to strike a deal with the EU.

Police on both sides of the open border fear if checkpoints return after Brexit they could become a target for militant groups opposed to peace in the region.

It would be "profoundly tragic" if the government moves to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol, a senior Labour figure has said.

Preserving post-Brexit trading rules for goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland is "the only way" to avoid a hard border, warns the EU.

“The dangerous and inflammatory rhetoric emanating from Boris Johnson’s Government is now undermining all of the progress we have made in recent years."

The US Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has sent a letter to the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warning that he will strongly oppose any US-UK trade deal that undermines the Good Friday Agreement or facilitates a return to a hard border.

Brussels says renegotiation UK is suggesting will mean more instability for the region.

The director of Europe’s oldest research centre on terrorism is “extremely worried” about the prospect of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit.

The U.K. government has pushed ahead with controversial plans to unilaterally override post-Brexit trade rules, ratcheting up the risk of a trade war as the European Union prepares to take retaliatory legal action.

‘It would be economically very, very dangerous for Britain, and for the peace process in Ireland it would potentially be devastating’

Special trade arrangements will apply from 1 January whether Johnson strikes deal or not.

UK FOREIGN Secretary Dominic Raab has accused the EU of putting pressure on the Good Friday Agreement with its approach to the ongoing Brexit negotiations.

Environment secretary says talks in “very difficult position” and a critical 24 hours lie ahead.

Business groups warn of potential harm to north-south trade under British bill.

‘No justification’ for bid to ditch NI protocol, Ireland and Germany warn Johnson.

UNELECTED UK Government minister Malcolm Offord has insisted the Tories have not conned the public over Brexit.

Several members of the US Congress have sent a letter to the British Prime Minister Theresa May warning about the potential consequences of the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland.

Richard Neal says US is a ‘guarantor’ of agreement and will not see it compromised.

Fresh from scandals and an attempted ousting, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s latest plan is to tear up key parts of a post-Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland he made himself less than three years ago.

Ursula von der Leyen says EU will ‘never backtrack’ on withdrawal agreement.

South Armagh people unsure of impact on them if UK crashes out of EU.