Following Sinn Féin’s victory in Northern Ireland’s elections, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is blocking the election of the new prime minister until the Northern Ireland Protocol contained in the ‘Brexit’ agreement is amended.
Euskaraz irakurri: Erresuma Batuko Gobernuak Ipar Irelandko Protokoloa aldatuko du “datozen asteetan”, alde bakarrez
The UK government announced yesterday that it will pass laws “in the coming weeks” which will mean in practice that unilateral violation of the Northern Ireland Protocol included in the agreement brexit Despite everything, he insists he is working on a “negotiated solution” with the European Union (EU).
This move seeks to propitiate the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). And it is that after Sinn Féin’s victory in Northern Ireland’s elections, the Democratic Unionist Party is holding the election of the new prime minister on hold until the Northern Ireland Protocol is amended. The DUP’s leader, Jeffrey Donaldson, believes the Executive’s announcement is a good starting point to work from there.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss appeared before the House of Commons on Tuesday to outline the Boris Johnson government’s roadmap regarding the stalled negotiations over the aforementioned protocol.
Truss defended that the Boris Johnson administration has put “reasonable” proposals on the table to change the signed commitments by mutual agreement. Thus he assured that proposed a mechanism to the EU so that goods coming from Great Britain to Northern Ireland are free of bureaucracy
Today Northern Ireland remains within the EU’s internal marketand Truss wants to bring back the “British common market”.
The minister also took advantage of her actions to defend that the plan to amend the Northern Ireland Protocol is “legal” and respects international law, despite the European Commission’s repeated allegations that it is an unprecedented violation of a mandatory agreement would be.
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Source: EITB
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