EU Struggles to Make Legal Sense of Theresa May’s Irish Pledges

  • Problems emerging in efforts to draft withdrawal agreement
  • May’s guarantees may need to cover as many as 60 areas

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The European Commission is struggling to translate the U.K.’s Brexit pledges on Ireland into a legally binding text, even before they present it to the U.K. in negotiations, according to people familiar with the EU side.