EU's Barnier: EU ready to work on alternative solutions during transition

"Dialogue @EU27 continues #Brexit. Today in The Hague with @MinPres Mark Rutte: full agreement that Withdrawal Agreement cannot be reopened. Backstop = only operational solution to address Irish border issue today. EU ready to work on alternative solutions during transition," the EU's Chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier recently tweeted out.

On a similar note, "The Withdrawal Agreement remains the only way to ensure an orderly withdrawal of the UK from the European Union. We continue to urge the UK Government to clarify its intentions with respect to its next steps," Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, said via his official Twitter account.