The European Commission will restart legal proceedings against the United Kingdom for breaching the provisions of the Northern Ireland Protocol negotiated between the parties to mitigate the impact of Brexit.
Euskaraz irakurri: Ipar Irelandko protokoloaren zati batzuk baliogabetzeko legea aurkeztu du Erresuma Batuko Gobernuak
The British government on Monday introduced the bill in parliament to unilaterally cancel parts of the protocol signed with the European Union on Northern Ireland that is part of the Brexit agreement.
The new legislation aims, among other things, to abolish the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) over disputes relating to Northern Ireland.
The European Commission will restart legal proceedings against the United Kingdom for violating the provisions of the Northern Ireland protocol negotiated between the parties to soften the impact of Brexit, after Boris Johnson’s government formally presented a law on Monday which in practice unilaterally suspends the pact.
The majority of the delegates Northern Ireland Assembly On Monday they signed a letter to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in which they censor the bill with which London wants to unilaterally violate the Brexit agreements.
Specifically, the letter rejects in “the strongest possible terms” the position of the British government, which according to the Westminster signatories has tabled “reckless new legislation” on the Northern Ireland protocol agreed with the European Union as part of the Brexit.
These represent the nationalist Sinn Feinthe first group from Northern Ireland after the autonomous elections last May, to the equally nationalist Social Democratic and Workers’ Party (SDLP) and the Alliance Partycenter and non-sectarian.
Deputies reminded Johnson that the new legislation “goes against” the wishes “not only of the majority” of Northern Ireland’s business community, “but also of the majority” of the citizenry.
Likewise, they have insisted that, “although not ideal”, the aforementioned protocol currently represents the “only” mechanism available to comply with the commercial arrangements that London and Brussels have agreed upon after Brexit.
The letter to Johnson bears the signature of 52 of the 90 members of the Belfast Assembly, in which the Protestant union formations take different positions on this controversial issue.
The most unyielding leaves the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)the second regional power, which refuses to share the autonomous government with the nationalists if the dialogue between London and Brussels does not lead to the abolition of the protocol.
For this reason, he supports London’s unilateral path should these talks end without an agreement, but has warned that he will not return to the Northern Irish Executive before the new legislation comes into force, a process that will take months.
Johnson, for his part, has downplayed the importance of the unilateral change to protocol, arguing that they are “a series of relatively trivial adjustments” within a broader set of obligations.
Johnson has avoided viewing the changes as an overt challenge to the EU, pointing out that it is more of a “bureaucratic change” that he believes does not violate international law, as both the European Commission and Ireland’s government argue.
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Source: EITB
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