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newsexaminer                                                                                     3




              Ireland's    Phil                                                                                                  Dublin      City
         Hogan      has      been    Johnson To Discuss New                                                                Council has revealed its   IRISH
         approved      as      the                                                                                         plan   for  the   former
         European Union’s new        Brexit Plan With Juncker                                                              Smithfield market.
         Trade Commissioner.                                                                                                  According    to   The   EXAMINER
           Hogan was approved                                                                                              Herald, city planners
         by     the     European                                                                                           hope to preserve all the   |
         Parliament’s       Trade                                                                                          heritage assets, but the
         Committee in Brussels on                                                                                          plans involve a signifi-   October
                                                                                                                           cant enhancement of
         Tuesday evening.                                                                                                  the   marketplace    and
           The   Kilkenny   native                                                                                         outdoor areas.
         said he was “honored” to                                                                                                                     2nd,
         be approved.                                                                                                      ket site, which has been
           Mr Hogan said the                                                                                               demolished      and    is
                                                                                                                              The original fish mar- 2019
         EU’s leadership role in                                                                                           being     used    as    a
         global trade has never                                                                                            carpark, is also to be
         been more important or                                                                                            included    within    the
         faced as many challenges                                                                                          development proposals.
         as it does today.                                                                                                    The Chancery Street
           “I therefore look for-                                                                                          yard will become the
         ward to working very                                                                                              new    public   entrance
         closely with EU Trade                                                                                             allowing    for   easier
         MEPs and the European            oris Johnson will speak with  and once received we will  Ms Andreeva said she would  access from the Luas.
         Council,” Mr Hogan said          European   Commission  examine it objectively and in  not “preempt any reaction”    The proposals have
         this evening.               Bpresident       Jean-Claude  light of our well-known criteria.  from the EU before senior fig-  been presented to the
                                                                                                                                             casual
                                                                                                                           markets
                                                                                                                                      and
           “I hope to justify the    Junckerthisafternoontodiscusshis  “We will listen very careful-  ures had a chance to study the
         trust they have placed in   proposals for changing the back-  ly to the United Kingdom.”  details.                trading   subcommittee
                                                                                                                           for consideration. C
         me to deliver on our        stop.                          Under   the  Withdrawal     “We want to enter into con-
         shared agenda.                The UK is due to submit its  Agreement negotiated by Mrs  structive discussions, so I will  The  controversial
           “As President-elect of    formal plans for altering the  May, if there was no long-term  certainly not preempt any reac-  plan to cut down trees
         the            European     Northern Ireland backstop in a  trade agreement in place by  tion here before even having  to  allow  for  Bus
                                                                                              received the text,” said the
                                                                 Brexit day that ensured an open
                                     bid to secure a deal with the
         Commission, Ursula von      European Union.             border, the UK would remain  spokeswoman.                 Connects in Dublin has
         der Leyen said: Our trade     The British Prime Minister  closely tied to EU rules and its  She added: “The EU wants a  been tweaked following
         policy ‘allows us to build  has vowed to remove the back-  customs union.            deal. We think an orderly with-  public outcry.
         partnerships, protect our   stop “whole and entire” and his  But according to a briefing  drawal is far more preferable  It now seems that
         market from unfair prac-    team has been working behind  received  by  The   Daily  than a no-deal scenario.     many    of   the  at-risk
         tices and ensure our val-                                                                                         trees and green areas
         ues and standards are          “In order for there to be a deal, we must have a legally                           may now be saved.
         protected’.” C                                                                                                       However, the newest
                                          operable solution that meets all the objectives of the                           version of Bus Connects

           An Irishman has been       backstop preventing a hard border, preserving the north-                             will impact more on
         jailed in the US for traf-                                                                                        drivers   and   on    car
                                                                                                                           space.
         ficking  in   rhinoceros        south co-operation and the all-Ireland economy, and                                  Green    Party   MEP
         horn.                                                                                                             Ciaran     Cuffe,   wel-
           50-year-old    Richard    protecting the EU’s single market and Ireland’s place in it.”                         comed the revision of
         Sheridan,     with    an    the scenes on ways of revising  Telegraph, Mr Johnson wants  “And in order for there to be  the  plans  by  the
         address at Cottenham in     the terms originally agreed by  to make wholesale changes to  a deal, we must have a legally  National  Transport
         Cambridge in the UK,        his predecessor Theresa May.  that agreement which would  operable solution that meets all  Authority.
         was sentenced to 14           Mr Johnson is set to brief Mr  effectively create two borders  the objectives of the backstop  Mr  Cuffe  said:
         months in prison followed   Juncker on his ideas during a  between the UK and Ireland.  preventing a hard border, pre-  “There’s been signifi-
         by two years of super-      phone call this afternoon and  The UK would remain close-  serving the north-south co-  cant improvement. For
         vised release.              his European adviser David  ly tied to the EU’s rules during  operation and the all-Ireland  instance, in Inchicore
           According    to   court   Frost will also hold technical  a transition period ending in  economy, and protecting the  they are saying that the
         documents, he bought a      talks with the European Union  2021 and then enter a free trade  EU’s  single  market  and  car traffic will go one
         libation cup made from      in Brussels, the European   agreement with the bloc, said  Ireland’s place in it.”    way and in doing it like
         an   endangered    rhino    Commission has confirmed.   the report.                    The commission confirmed   that we’ll save all the
         horn at a North Carolina      We want to enter into con-   After that, in a plan that has  Mr Juncker was likely to discuss  trees that go through
         auction house.              structive discussions, so I will  been dubbed “two borders for  the Brexit developments in a  Inchicore village.
                                                                                                                              “Now that’s a step in
           He then smuggled it out   certainly not preempt any reac-  four years”, Northern Ireland  phone  call  with  German
         of the country.             tion here before even having  would be kept in a special status  Chancellor Angela Merkel this  the right direction, we
                                                                                                                           can’t just see this as a
           US prosecutors said the   received the text           until 2025, leaving the EU cus-  afternoon.               road engineering proj-
         sentence will help fight      Mina Andreeva, the com-   toms union alongside the rest  “They will discuss all topical  ect, we have to improve
         organized crime gangs       mission’s chief spokeswoman,  of the UK, but remaining   issues, so I assume that Brexit  the level of community
                                     said: “We understand that we
                                                                                              will feature in terms of topical
                                                                 aligned on all single market
         trading in protected and    will receive a text from the  rules for agriculture and indus-  issues discussed,” Ms Andreeva  consultation  and
         endangered species. C                                                                                              engagement.” C
                                     United Kingdom later today  trial goods.                 told journalists in Brussels. C

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