James Cleverly is meeting with Maros Sefcovic this morning to sign off the Windsor Framework, the newly agreed UK-EU Brexit deal. The two leaders met today to sign off the deal, before a meeting of the trade and cooperation agreement partnership council. This is only the second time the council has met.
Ahead of the meeting, Mr Cleverly said: “By formally approving the Windsor framework, we are delivering on our commitment to provide stability and certainty for Northern Ireland.
“The framework is the best deal for Northern Ireland, safeguarding its place in the Union and protecting the Belfast (Good Friday) agreement.
“I look forward to further effective cooperation with the EU on key issues, such as security and energy.”
The Foreign Office said: “The partnership council will cover wider UK-EU cooperation, including on issues such as the UK’s access to EU science and research programmes, energy, trade and security.
“The UK will continue to work with the EU in a range of areas including research collaboration, but also strengthening sanctions against Russia as well as energy security, and illegal migration.”
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