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16 September 2019 Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, that the European Union is ready for "high-speed" negotiations on Brexit, but reminded him that "they have not been done yet proposals "to replace the Irish backstop in the withdrawal agreement." President Juncker recalled that it is the UK's responsibility to present legally functional solutions that are compatible with the withdrawal agreement, "reads a Commission statement at the end of the business lunch between Juncker and Johnson in Luxembourg.It is the first meeting of Boris Johnson with the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, since he became prime minister last July. In the meeting, according to British government sources, Johnson would have made it clear that "he will reject, if offered, any extension proposal", from the time of Brexit that, as is known, the premier states that it will happen, with or without the agreement , by October 31st.
In recent days, the British prime minister had expressed optimism about the possibility of reaching an agreement with the EU to change the terms of the agreement negotiated by Theresa May, which Johnson considers unacceptable. But in reality frustration grows in Brussels over the lack of concrete proposals from London. "There are no indications of a breakthrough," a European diplomat told the dpa. For his part, in an interview broadcast yesterday by German television, Juncker said he was "not optimistic" about the possibility of finding an alternative agreement to replace the "backstop", the mechanism that should prevent the resurgence of a 'hard' border between Great Britain and Ireland after Brexit.