The European Commission and the British government have reached a deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol, UK government sources said on Monday, following a meeting between Ursula von der Leyen and Rishi Sunak.
The Commission chief and British Prime Minister are to hold a joint press conference at 16:30 CET from Windsor, in the south-eastern English county of Berkshire where they held their talks.
EU ambassadors will meanwhile convene in Brussels for an informal COREPER meeting to discuss the deal."I'm looking forward to turning a page and opening a new chapter with our partner and friend," von der Leyen said upon arrival in the UK earlier on Monday.
She was also scheduled to meet with King Charles III. The von der Leyen-Sunak meeting was the second one in less than two weeks with the first held on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.It also comes after a flurry of cross-Channel talks over the past few weeks between Maroš Šefčovič, the EU's main Brexit negotiator, and his British interlocutor, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.