Irish and British ministers say they are "very close" to the Brexit agreement

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Dublin: The British and Irish ministers said Friday that they were "very close" to hear about how to keep open the land border between them after Brexit, which delays the conclusion of a divorce agreement with the EU. 19659007] "I think we are about to solve it, I hope so," Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said at the end of an interview in Dublin .

British Cabinet Minister David Lidington said at the same press conference: As Simon says, we are certainly about to solve it. He added that the talks in Brussels do not ed to "continue and step up further".
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But neither minister specified how they would get out of the stalemate on the border, raising fears that Britain will leave the EU without an agreement next March.
Britain intends to exit the single market and the customs union of the bloc, which means that the border between his province of Northern Ireland and Ireland, member from the EU, will become an external border of the EU after Brexit.

Both parties pledged not to have physical infrastructure such as customs.

Lidington was in Dublin for the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference, a discussion forum between the two countries set up under the peace agreement with Northern Ireland in 1998. [19659009] His colleague Dominic Raab, British Minister of Brexit, went to Northern Ireland on Friday where he met politicians and businessmen. It appeared this week that Raab felt that an agreement on Brexit could be finalized with the EU on November 21, although Prime Minister Theresa May's office is more cautious.

Coveney warned Wednesday in Paris that there was a breakthrough this month, "We need bargaining teams to find a solution in the coming week".

The Irish minister revealed Friday that Dublin was in daily contact with the team of EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier in Brussels.