Johnson is urged to leave the unilateral path and agree with the EU on the reform of the Brexit protocol
The governments of Germany and Ireland have criticized the “unilateralism” concocted by Boris Johnson’s executive to resolve difficulties in implementing the Brexit deal for Northern Ireland during these “troubling times in which Russia is embroiled in a brutal war in Ukraine”. “The European Union and the United Kingdom must remain united, as partners with shared values and a commitment to defend and respect the rules-based international order,” the foreign ministers of the two countries said in a joint statement. German Annalena Baerbock and Irishman Simon Coveney.
Foreign ministers blamed the London government’s lack of good faith in its negotiations with the EU and warned that “there is no legal or political justification for unilaterally breaking an international agreement signed two years ago”. They refer to the Westminster parliament’s consideration of a bill that, in its current wording, eliminates parts of the agreed Northern Ireland Protocol and gives ministers carte blanche to change other mechanisms in the future.
The bill was approved in second reading last week with a majority of up to 74 votes, including union seats. More than 70 Conservatives – including former Prime Minister Theresa May and former Northern Ireland ministers – abstained after harshly criticizing Johnson’s plan.
In their joint intervention, published by the Sunday ‘The Observer’, Baerbock and Coveney highlight the EU’s proposals to overcome technical glitches and bureaucratic obstacles in the implementation of the protocol. “We remain ready to be flexible and creative,” they write, before urging London to “step back from the one-sided approach and show the same pragmatism and willingness to compromise” as the EU.
Liz Truss, Secretary of State responsible for Brexit, justified the bill as a “necessary” action, which would violate the Brexit treaty but protect the previous Good Friday Agreement, the engine of the end of terrorism. the island. The Conservative government agrees with the union leadership that the protocol breaks the principle of consensus sealed in the peace treaties and removes obstacles in East-West relations, i.e. between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. Brexit has created a trade custom in the Irish Sea.
Baerbock and Coveney, on the other hand, claim it “fully respects the spirit and letter of the Good Friday Agreement” and note that 52 of the 90 members of the Belfast Parliament elected in May “support the protocol”. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the main Protestant power in the province, threatens to boycott the creation of self-government until the pledges accepted by London to leave the EU are withdrawn.
Source: La Verdad
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