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. 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 in Brussels.

And I'm Colombeau Mungain, RTE's Deputy Foreign Editor in Dublin.

Each week, Brexit Republic brings you all the latest developments in Dublin, Brussels and London. This week the horrendous loss of life on the English Channel has brought simmering tensions between France and Britain to a head and led to a bout of mutual recrimination over who's responsible.

We look at the migrant issue at Calais through a Brexit lens with a view from the European Council on Foreign Relations

and assess the prospects for an Antoine Cordial,

which looks unlikely anytime soon.

We'll also assess the history of the camps,

the jungles and the risk-taking around the Fort of Calais

and why the numbers there at the moment are by no means at their highest.

And same as it ever was. Another week of Northern Ireland Protocol Talks comes and goes with

no breakthrough and yet another threat by Lord Frost to trigger Article 16. But first, Tony,

you referred to Calais there in the intro for anyone who wasn't listening to or watching your

reports during the week. That's where you were yesterday for a long day looking at the aftermath of the tragedy.

That's right, Column. On Wednesday afternoon, French fishermen discovered bodies in the water

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