UK Brexit minister: EU must yield more on Northern Ireland
By DW
24 October 2021 |
7:39 am
Britain's Brexit Minister David Frost has reacted to proposed EU concessions to ease bottlenecks affecting the trade in goods to Northern Ireland from the UK mainland.
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