http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20190830-080921-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/backstop-alternatives-examining-the-we-cannot-trust-the-brits-excuse/ Backstop Alternatives: Examining the “We Cannot Trust the Brits” Excuse Weiler, Joseph H.H. eng 2019-08-30 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 brexit No-Deal Brexit Northern Ireland Backstop Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Last week, together with two colleagues, Daniel Sarmiento and Sir Jonathan Faull, we published a plan which could avoid a no-deal Brexit. It is to one reaction, attributed in the Press to anonymous Commission sources that I wish to react. And I do not do this solely or even mainly in order to defend the viability of our particular Proposal. I do so because I fear that this same reaction of these anonymous EU officials will meet any proposal for "alternative arrangements" to be put on the table by the UK government.