Emergency meeting of EU-UK Joint Committee to take place Thursday

Maroš Šefčovič and Michael Gove will meet in person following UK’s plan to break Brexit deal.

LONDON — An urgent meeting of the EU-U.K. Joint Committee will take place in London on Thursday, EU and British officials confirmed.

European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič and the U.K.’s Cabinet Minister Michael Gove will meet in person after the British government admitted that its Internal Market Bill would seek to alter parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, breaking international law in a “very specific and limited way.”

The plans rang alarm bells in Brussels, with EU leaders warning against the impact such a move would have on trust with London as the two sides seek a trade deal to continue relations beyond December 31. The plans also infuriated leaders in Scotland and Wales.

Šefčovič called the meeting “so that our U.K. partners elaborate and respond to our strong concerns.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke with his Irish counterpart Micheál Martin on the phone on Wednesday evening. Martin expressed his concern about the U.K.’s intentions with the bill “in forthright terms,” a spokesman for the Irish government said.

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“He stressed to the PM that the U.K. government should re-engage with EU negotiators urgently,” he said.

A U.K. spokesperson told journalists earlier on Wednesday that the government sees the current circumstances as very distinct, adding that the agreed deal “contains ambiguities and in key areas there is a lack of clarity.”