The backstop agreed in the Brexit deal is a guarantee of stability in Ireland and not simply a technical mechanism, said French President Emmanuel Macron, standing alongside UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson outside the Elysee Palace, APA reports citing Sputnik.
French President Emmanuel Macron is currently hosting Boris Johnson, who has embarked on his first foreign trip as UK prime minister, in Paris on Thursday, 22 August.
The French leader said that he respected the UK decision to withdraw from the EU, while adding that his position would always be to protect the European project.
Addressing the possibility of a no-deal scenario, Macron said that such an eventuality was never the bloc's choice. But he said that it was the EU's duty to be ready for it.
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