Brexit, the draft agreement is there. Today the day of May

Theresa May (Ansa)

This time it seems that the agreement is really there. After months of debate and negotiation, a text finally defines the terms of Britain's exit from the EU. The agreement, reached by the negotiators and announced last night by the Irish public television "Rté", will be presented this afternoon at the table of ministers convened by the urgent Prime Minister Theresa May. Despite the invitation to caution of those who evoke a technical text "stabilized but not formalized", the announcement was accepted as a crackdown.

According to early rumors, the issue of borderless borders between Ireland and Northern Ireland has been resolved – as announced in May last month – raising the resistance of the "hard" Brexiteer ": The United Kingdom will remain temporarily in the European Customs Union pending the further definition of an agreement establishing in detail the terms of future trade relations between London and Brussels. According to the "Rte" report, however, the so-called "backstop" provides for "more stringent" provisions for Northern Ireland, both at the customs and regulatory levels. Not a small detail, the latter, which could alarm parliamentarians and parties in Belfast.

It is no coincidence that Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney's spokesman is eager to explain that negotiations are about to happen "but not still completed, "suggesting that there are still some details to be ignited. The draft agreement was meanwhile given to each minister for the meeting at Downing Street. According to the "Sun", the Prime Minister summoned each member of the government for a private meeting late last night. The game has yet to be played both at the party and at Westiminister.

The breakthrough occurred at the end of a convulsive day marked by a Council of Ministers that opened under the banner of "we're almost there," as David Lidington said, Theresa May's spokesperson, has ended with nothingness. . The statements came from Brussels and were perceived in London as a strong "pressure" to raise the tension. "Negotiations are continuing intensively," said Frans Timmermans, Vice President of the European Commission, "but we are not here yet." At the press conference after the meeting of Commissioners, Mr Timmermans pointed out that the EU "was speeding up preparations for Brexit and set out an emergency plan in case of of failure of the agreement with the United Kingdom ".

The project focuses on the effects of Brexit on citizens and businesses. Strengths include changes in financial services, air transport, customs, health, personal data transmission, climate policies, visas and residency. Speaking of the thorny issue of free movement of people, the Vice President of the European Commission announced an amendment to the Visa Regulation. The idea is that in case of no agreement or at the end of the transitional period, British citizens are exempted from the visa requirement for short stays in the Union, provided that the United Kingdom do the same with European citizens.