Respect for international law 'not optional', says EU chief

The US presidential candidate's warning comes amid international dismay at the UK government's plan to overrule parts of the legally-binding EU divorce deal.

"This way of negotiating, with reason cast aside in pursuit of ideology and cavalier bombast posing as serious diplomacy, is irresponsible, wrong in principle and dangerous in practice," the former UK leaders said.

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney did not mince his words when questioned by Euronews' Shona Murray on the latest Brexit furore.

The UK has until the end of the month to withdraw the controversial measures from its draft bill, the Commission said.

UK prime minister says he will press ahead with proposed law that a minister admitted breaks international law

The head of the European Council has defended the EU's stance and called for calm amid heightened tensions in the post-Brexit trade talks.

"The last thing we want to see is somehow the British government trying to play with peace in Ireland as some sort of negotiating gambit towards fishing rights or state aid," Irish lawmaker Neale Richmond told Euronews.

The UK government has imposed a mid-October deadline for reaching a trade deal with the EU, while downplaying reports it plans to override divorce deal terms on Northern Ireland.

"Considerable gaps" between the two sides remained at the end fo the July talks.