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Italy's 2020
budget cuts
taxes, targets
evaders
EU coordinated
risk assessment
of 5G networks
security
Malta's plans for
a seamless Brexit
transition and its
ties to the UK
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THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2019 • ISSUE 30
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MASSIMO COSTA
LAST-DITCH efforts to secure
a Brexit agreement appear to
have paid off, with the UK gov-
ernment trying to iron out some
outstanding issues before an EU
leaders' summit today.
e deal would see the crea-
tion of a hard border between
the island of Ireland, including
both Ireland and Northern Ire-
land, and the rest of the UK.
Talks between the negotiating
British and EU teams were still
ongoing at the time of writing,
with British Prime Minister Bo-
ris Johnson set to once again
meet Northern Ireland's Dem-
ocratic Unionist Party late at
night in a last-ditch attempt to
secure the party's support, de-
spite its concerns about having
Northern Ireland treated differ-
ently from the rest of the UK.
Deal or no deal?
Brexit: DUP final stumbling block in reaching deal
US embassy
offers aid to
help Maltese
authorities
solve Caruana
Galizia murder
"in a credible
manner"
Boris
Johnson