UK Brexit negotiator says Britain will not trigger Article 16 today
By Guy Faulconbridge and Gabriela Baczynska LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union said on Friday that Britain had made no move to seek a compromise on post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland and cautioned London against triggering emergency unilateral provisions in the Brexit deal. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit negotiator David Frost ruled out immediately triggering such provisions, a move that would sour ties with the EU, concern the United States and anger Ireland. But Frost made clear he wanted Brussels to offer more. Maros Sefcovic, a deputy head of the bloc's executive Eur...