EU, UK seek new NIreland deal to stave off Brexit trade war

By RAF CASERT
Associated Press

BRUSSELS (AP) — The top negotiators of the European Union and recently departed Britain are seeking a belated renegotiated deal on how trade in Northern Ireland should be dealt with amid signs that increasingly acrimonious relations could lead to a trade war. On top of the dispute on how to smooth trade in goods in the U.K.’s Northern Ireland, where the complicated Brexit deal has left the region also in the EU’s single trading zone, both sides are fighting over symbolically important U.K. fishing licenses off of France.