‘NO’ FOR BREXIT ARBITRATOR

THE EU will not accept London’s demands for an alternative arbitrator to settle post-Brexit disputes involving Northern Ireland, Dublin said this week after the EU put forward a host of proposals, including reduced customs checks and paperwork on British products intended for Northern Ireland, in a bid to solve problems caused by the Brexit deal signed last year. But there was no movement on what Britain says is one of its red lines: the role of the EU’s European Court of Justice as arbiter in any post-Brexit disputes involving the province.