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Boris Johnson looks for an EU ally in Merkel as he seeks to save BrexitHolly EllyattPrime Minister Boris Johnson is to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin Wednesday in his first official trip abroad as U.K. leader and one that will likely be all focused on Brexit.Johnson will aim to persuade Merkel, and French President Emmanuel Macron who he’s meeting on Thursday, to try to influence the wider EU to change a crucial part of the Brexit deal.He hopes the EU might consider removing the contentious “backstop†plan, aimed at preventing a hard border on the island of Ireland, believing that its removal could give the deal on offer a better chance of being approved by the U.K. Parliament before a departure deadline of October 31.Read more at: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/21/brexit-boris-johnson-looks-for-an-eu-ally-in-merkel.html
