The International Secretary will maintain his first name later with Maros Sefcovic, amid an ongoing row over post-Brexit preparations in Northern Eire.
The European Fee vp, who has led talks between the EU and the UK over the Northern Eire Protocol, is anticipated to talk with James Cleverly round lunchtime.
Relations between London and Brussels stay at a low ebb, after the Authorities angered the EU with plans to tear up swathes of the protocol in a bid to deal with the issues of unionists in Northern Eire.
The protocol, signed by former prime minister Boris Johnson’s authorities, successfully retains Northern Eire aligned with many EU single market guidelines to keep away from a tough border with Eire, subsequently requiring some checks on items crossing the Irish Sea.
Regardless of elections in Could, there's at present no sitting powersharing government in Northern Eire after the DUP withdrew its first minister from the governing government in protest in February on the financial border created within the Irish Sea by the protocol.
It was Liz Truss as international secretary who launched laws which successfully tears up elements of the settlement, worsening relations with the EU.
Nonetheless, each side have insisted that a negotiated end result is the popular choice amid hopes that some type of compromise might be reached.
In an interview with BBC Northern Eire on Thursday, Ms Truss stated that the Authorities stays open to a “negotiated settlement”, however insisted that the scenario can't be allowed to “drift”.