EU says to regulate Northern Irish trade unless Britain acts fast

The European Union on Wednesday laid out how it would regulate Northern Ireland's trade if no better solution was found in the fast-closing window before Britain's departure from the EU, prompting furious reactions in London and Belfast.Brussels' chief negotiator Michel Barnier, presenting the EU's draft of an exit treaty for Britain, denied that the proposal, intended to avoid a disruptive EU-UK "hard border" on the island of Ireland, would loosen Northern Ireland's constitutional ties to the r