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

I'm Tony Connolly, RTE's Europe editor in Brussels.

I'm Sean Whelan, RTE's London correspondent in Westminster.

And I'm Colm O'Mongown, RTE's Deputy Foreign Editor,

normally in Dublin with currently at home in my kitchen in Kildare.

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

It's an intensification of talks, but don't call it a tunnel.

Ahead of the resumption of face-to-face negotiations on the future relationship on Monday,

we'll assess what the new negotiating format will mean

and what results it might deliver. And we'll look in a bit more detail at the four big stumbling

blocks, level playing field, fisheries, police and judicial cooperation, and the governance issues

or how to solve disputes in the future.

And while it's not immediately related to Brexit,

we'll assess Pascal Dunahue's chances of becoming the next president of the Eurogroup,

the body that brings together the Eurozone's finance minister.

But first, next week's talks, how different will the structure be?

And what was wrong with the old structure?

Tony, to you first.

Yes, Column. So next week, both sides will meet face to face for the first time since early March. Sean was there when that last happened in Brussels. And it comes following a hiatus in the

future relationship negotiations. As you know, we had four rounds of

negotiations. They pretty much got nowhere, and that's partly, I suppose, due to the effects

of the pandemic, which collided with the negotiations and it prevented people meeting in the same

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