The British Prime Minister will receive European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tomorrow to try to finalize negotiations
The agreement between the United Kingdom and the EU on a new protocol in Northern Ireland seems close. The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, will receive the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in London tomorrow to try to personally advance the negotiations and make a pact for the side of this region, a regime that has been negotiated as part of Brexit but which the British government has refused to implement for two years.
The European Commission and the UK government have notified von der Leyen’s trip to London in a joint statement stressing that both have “agreed to continue working personally”. The aim is “to find common and practical solutions to the range of complex challenges related to the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland”, explains Brussels.
In recent days, the negotiating teams have made significant progress and speculation has skyrocketed about the imminent agreement to resolve the dispute. In fact, Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister, Dominic Raab, assured in an interview with ‘Sky News’ today that they are “on the verge of an agreement” and “within days, not weeks”. Sunak himself had stated that his government is “giving everything” to reach an agreement.
With this agreement, Sunak seems prepared to face a possible internal uprising in his party. “As someone who believes in Brexit, who voted for Brexit and campaigned for Brexit, I want to show that Brexit works and that it works for all British territories,” he told the Times in an interview.
As for the content of the pact, Raab has pointed to the establishment of a “green lane” for products from Great Britain to enter Northern Ireland and a reduction in the powers of the European Court of Justice.
Similarly, a mechanism is under negotiation that would allow the Parliament of Northern Ireland to have a say on any change to EU regulations affecting Northern Ireland.
On an internal British political level, the Labor opposition hopes to support the deal, while the Democratic Unionist Party has refused to join a government with the Republican Sinn Féin party in protest at the fallout from Northern Ireland’s protocol.
Source: La Verdad
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