Phil Hogan last night confirmed that the EU is ready to grant the UK a Brexit extension.
It emerged last night that there will be border controls, both north and south of the border, five miles from the actual border proposed by the UK as part of the famous ‘non-papers’.
Commissioner Hogan has dismissed criticisms of his political performance from the Greens’ Ciaran Cuffe with a pithy one liner.
When asked by the Irish Mirror for a response to Mr Cuffe’s “underachiever” comments, he simply said: “I think we should let Ciaran talk to himself.”
Mr Hogan was also asked by reporters last night about the latest State of Play on Brexit, and he indicated that the EU Commission is ready to grant an extension to the UK.
He said: “There’s been a lot of activity on Brexit in the last three years and they’re wondering when the next extension coming because inevitably that’s the way things are developing.
“When you’re not able to see an agreement coming through the House of Commons - there’s a wonder here to know if any deal would get through the House of Commons - so there’s a majority, then a UK election is what the European side thinks is going to happen.
“And again we didn’t get any meaningful proposals from the UK side for an extension in order to get a deal."
He added: “If you don’t get a deal, they’ve already passed legislation for them to have an extension, provided Mr Johnson agrees to the law of the land.
“We’re talking about ten days to do a deal and it doesn’t always happen that quickly around here.
“We’re waiting for proposals and there’s no sign of them for months that in any way deal with the fundamental issues we are talking about.”
