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"Huge and serious" differences remain between the UK and EU in Brexit talks, the EU's chief negotiator has warned.
Michel Barnier invited UK negotiators again to Brussels subsequent Monday, warning: "The time is very short."
Talks proceed over the phrases of the UK's withdrawal from the EU in March subsequent yr. What occurs to the Irish border stays a sticking level.
The UK says settlement on very important safety co-operation after Brexit is being blocked by EU negotiators.
Arriving on the second day of the European Council assembly on Friday, Mr Barnier mentioned: "We have made progress but huge and serious divergence remains, in particular on Ireland and Northern Ireland."
He additionally mentioned he hoped to see "workable and realistic" proposals from the UK on what the long run relationship between the UK and EU ought to appear like.
"The time is very short. We want a deal and are working for a deal, the time is short and I am ready to invite the UK delegation to come back to Brussels next Monday."
The prime minister has referred to as her cupboard collectively for what has been billed as a make-or-break assembly at her nation residence, Chequers, on 6 July to agree the UK's blueprint for its future relations with the EU.
Her personal cupboard is split over what the UK's customs preparations after December 2020 ought to appear like, when the transition interval agreed with the EU is because of finish.
And there are disagreements over the long run motion of products and folks throughout the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
On Thursday, Mrs May mentioned a sturdy future partnership with the EU was in all people's pursuits.
"I think both sides are keen to continue that work at a faster pace than we have done up till now and certainly we would welcome that," she mentioned.
She also stated that the UK would publish a White Paper setting out "in more detail [the] strong partnership the United Kingdom wants to see with the European Union in the future".
But she urged fellow EU leaders to inform their negotiators the UK must be allowed to proceed to participate in schemes just like the Prum mechanism for sharing DNA profiles, the Second Generation Schengen Information Systema database of "real time" alerts about sure peopleand the European Criminal Records Information System.
Without UK participation in such schemes, she advised their collective skill to battle terrorism can be diminished.
Mr Barnier has argued the UK can't remain a part of some policing agreements after Brexit as a result of it needed to depart the European Court of Justice and free motion guidelines.
He mentioned the EU needed an "ambitious partnership, on trade as well as on security" but it surely needed to be based mostly on "on our values and our principles, respecting also the UK red lines".