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It is believed that the meeting with King Charles III will be separate from von der Leyen's main talks with UK premier Rishi Sunak over the Northern Ireland Protocol
The UK and the European Union ended years of wrangling and acrimony on Monday, sealing a deal to resolve their thorny post-Brexit trade dispute over Northern Ireland
European Commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen, arrives in London to hold "final talks" with UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, in a bid to end more than a year of negotiations over the so-called Northern Ireland protocol. IMAGES
The von der Leyen-Sunak meeting is the second one in less than two weeks and comes after a flurry of cross-Channel talks between Maroš Šefčovič, the EU's main Brexit negotiator, and his British interlocutor, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, since the beginning of the year.
The prospect of a deal on post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland appeared tantalisingly close as European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are set to meet in the UK on Monday (February 27) "for final talks".