Brexit concessions by EU on table ahead of talks with UK

The European Union (EU) will offer a new package of concessions to the UK that would ease trade barriers in Northern Ireland, as the two sides prepare for a new round of contentious Brexit negotiations. Later Wednesday, Maros Sefcovic, the EU’S chief Brexit negotiator, will offer to cut as much as 50 per cent of the customs checks in Northern Ireland and up to 80 per cent of the sanitary checks on food imports, according to officials familiar with the proposal. Procedures for medicines would remain largely unchanged.