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Britain's Brexit Minister Dominc Raab leaves 10 Downing Street in London on 13 November 2018. Tolga AKMEN / AFP

A draft agreement on Brexit has been reached by British and European negotiators and will be discussed Wednesday in Council of Ministers, announced the British government on Tuesday night. The question of the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland would have been settled, which would prevent a return to a physical border. According to several British media, the ministers were summoned individually this Tuesday night at Downing Street, before the council of ministers of tomorrow.

With our correspondent in London , Muriel Delcroix

Everything is still provisional and it is the technical subtleties of the text of the agreement on which the negotiators have agreed and especially on the question of the border between the two Ireland.

The details of this text are not yet known and Theresa May's ministers either, because Downing Street said in a statement that the cabinet members were recalled to the Prime Minister's office one by one to find out about this. document. They will have the opportunity to study before a special meeting of the government, convened this Wednesday at 14h (London time), during which the cabinet will discuss the text and approve. This would allow Brussels to organize an extraordinary summit in late November so that London and the 27 finally sign a divorce agreement.

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Although we are not there yet, because already some ministers, but also several fierce deputies brexiters expressed their " deep concerns " in front of a text which could according to them " trap " the United Kingdom in a customs union with the EU.

Boris Johnson, the former head of diplomacy has said tonight that he would vote against the text when it will be presented to the British Parliament in a few weeks. As for the Northern Irish unionists, they also reject this provisional text which, according to several leaks, seems to retain the original proposal of Brussels to keep Northern Ireland aligned with the European regulation, the famous "backstop" and therefore under a different from the rest of the United Kingdom. That is why, on the Brussels side, caution is still needed and we are tempered by saying that the negotiations have not yet been concluded.