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EU to Consider Legal Lifeline to Help May Sell Her Brexit Deal
- Leaders to consider issuing statement that has legal force
- Another summit is likely in January, European diplomats say
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European leaders will consider going at least some way to giving Theresa May what she’s asking for to sell her Brexit deal at home.
At a summit on Thursday, they were set to discuss publishing a new declaration to ease concerns about the most contentious part of last month’s Brexit deal -- the so-called Irish backstop. The new text would have legal force, according to two EU diplomats, who declined to be named as the discussions are private, and still in the early stages.