The Brexit withdrawal agreement protects most of the rights of the 3.4 million EU citizens in the UK and the 1.3 million British people in the EU. UK accused of watering down citizens' rights pledge in no-deal plan Read moreA senior EU official rejected suggestions the agreement on citizens’ rights could be easily salvaged from the wreckage of a no-deal Brexit. In a similar gesture, the Tory coalition behind the Malthouse compromise has said the UK should unilaterally guarantee EU citizens’ rights. Campaign groups reject the EU’s legal arguments that citizens’ rights cannot be ringfenced and are urging both sides to do so under article 50. The EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, has said “there will be checks in the case of a no-deal Brexit” but has not specified where checks would take place.

Source: The Guardian February 06, 2019 16:45 UTC