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Officials are minded to resist any British efforts to insert an explicit commitment that Northern Ireland will be treated the same as the rest of the U.K. into the Brexit treaty. May made that promise in December to placate the Democratic Unionist Party that’s propping up her government.
The EU believes the matter is an internal U.K. issue and doesn’t have a place in the legal agreement, according to a European diplomat, who asked not be identified as deliberations are private. The diplomat said negotiations are ongoing and no final decisions have been taken. [...]