The EU holds firm as the prospect of a no-deal Brexit for the UK draws closer.
Nothing much will happen in Brexit negotiations, if anything at all, until the G7 summit in Biarritz in three weeks' time, and the UK is heading for a no-deal exit.
Bluntly, Mr Frost and Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay have said negotiations require the Irish backstop to be jettisoned, and the EU have said no.Furthermore, they have spotted what they say is the conscious UK strategy of trying to isolate and pressurise Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, and wanted to send a message from the rest of the EU27 of absolute support for Dublin.
But this went well beyond just the backstop - the set of policies designed to maintain the absence of a border on the island of Ireland, whatever occurs with Brexit. It was stressed at Monday's EU27 meeting that this offer was made only on the condition that the UK respects a level playing field with the EU after Brexit on regulatory, environmental, social and other matters.
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