In all areas, the UK continues to backtrack.

The European Union argues that we should be subject to rules of the club that we have left.

The precondition is the level playing field.

We can deliver a real Brexit that achieves our objectives.

But if there is not a deal, we still need the Irish Protocol or the Northern Irish protocol fully implemented.

I'm going to miss being the pantomime villain.

Hello and welcome to Brexit Republic, RTE's podcast on Brexit.

I'm Tony Connolly, RTE's Europe editor at the EU summit in Brussels.

I'm Sean Whelan, RTE's correspondent in London, but this week coming to you from Wales.

And I'm Colom Ongo Nungown, RTE's Deputy Foreign Editor in Dublin.

Each week, Brexit Republic brings you all the latest developments in Dublin, Brussels and London.

I'll have an update from the summit in Brussels on Europe's big Poland-shaped headache.

What happens when a member state says its own constitution supersedes EU law and the European Court of Justice? And I'm in Cardiff talking to the Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford

and Ireland's Foreign Minister Simon Covenny about post-Brexit trading arrangements

and why, as technical talks on the Northern Ireland protocol

continue Lord Frost himself got the Polish treatment in the House of Lords over the role

of the European Court of Justice. Well, let's start there, Sean and Tony will take us back maybe to

last week we were speaking on Friday just as David Frost was flying out from

London to Brussels, or maybe he took the train, Tony. I'm not sure of the mode of transport to meet

his counterpart, European Commission, Vice President Mara Shefjevich to discuss issues in the protocol.

Now, we didn't get their statement or their readout from that meeting last Friday for understandable

reasons. The reasons,

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