UK Nears Post-Brexit Deal for Access to EU Border Agency
- Rishi Sunak aims to announce Frontex agreement in October
- Premier hopes deal will help with ‘stop the boats’ pledge
The draft technical agreement needs to now go through an approval process, which includes Frontex.
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The UK has reached a preliminary agreement with the European Union to access the bloc’s border agency, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest effort to rebuild cooperation between the two sides after Brexit.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants to announce the UK’s “third-country” status to Frontex, which coordinates the border and coast guards of Europe’s Schengen area, in early October at a meeting among European leaders, the people said. Talks progressed over summer, and officials expect to formally conclude the working arrangement by the end of the month, said the people, who asked not be named discussing matters that have not been made public.