{"id":72080,"date":"2019-10-09T10:48:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T10:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=72080"},"modified":"2019-10-09T10:48:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T10:48:35","slug":"merkel-warns-uk-brexit-deal-unlikely-without-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/merkel-warns-uk-brexit-deal-unlikely-without-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel warns UK Brexit deal \u2018unlikely\u2019 without compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday that his Brexit plan was doomed to fail without further compromise on the Irish border issue, a Downing Street source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a phone call, Merkel warned the British leader that a deal was \u201coverwhelmingly unlikely\u201d unless he dropped his opposition to keeping British-run Northern Ireland in the European Union\u2019s customs union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Johnson has repeatedly said he will not shift on the issue, pointing to a collapse in the negotiations just weeks before Britain\u2019s scheduled EU exit on October 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Berlin, a spokesman for the German government confirmed to AFP the two leaders had spoken but said he would not comment on the content of the call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson unveiled a new plan last week aimed at keeping Britain\u2019s border with EU member Ireland free-flowing after Brexit a crucial issue in the divorce talks between Brussels and London.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday that his Brexit plan was doomed to fail without further compromise on the Irish border issue, a Downing Street source said. In a phone call, Merkel warned the British leader that a deal was \u201coverwhelmingly unlikely\u201d unless he dropped his opposition to keeping [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72082,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72080\/revisions\/72082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}