Tusk asks May to solution Irish border

brussels - EU President Donald Tusk hopes to hear from British Prime Minister Theresa May Thursday what solution she has for the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland after the Brexit. The Pool speaks May later in the day in London.

Both parties do not want border controls to be carried out again, but the British have not yet made it clear how to do that if they leave the European internal market and customs union. The EU has proposed as a contingency plan that Northern Ireland should continue to fall under the same EU rules as the Republic of Ireland if no better solution is found. 'No one has come up with a wiser option,' Tusk said in Brussels.

May vehemently opposes this option, which in her opinion threatens the territorial unit of the United Kingdom. According to her, no British prime minister would accept anything like that. Her government receives support from the Protestant Northern Irish party DUP, which is morally against separate rules for Northern Ireland.