'A new page': How the media reacted to the Northern Ireland deal

Rishi Sunak lauded for making ‘adult relationship’ possible between UK and EU after post-Brexit dispute

Britain's prime minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen. Picture: Dan Kitwood/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

The media across Europe has welcomed the deal settling the EU’s bitter post-Brexit dispute with the UK over Northern Ireland, hoping it may herald a new “adult relationship” that had been unthinkable while the “untrustworthy” former British prime minister Boris Johnson was in Downing Street.

In France, where the president Emmanuel Macron, hailed “an important decision” that would “preserve the Good Friday agreement and protect our European internal market”, Le Monde called the Windsor framework a significant breakthrough.