‘Stormont Brake’, the new instrument for Belfast to veto EU laws
The Northern Irish Assembly will not only be able to comment on the rules of the single market of the EU, to which it continues to belong, but also block its application in the territory.
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Belfast. File image: EITB
Euskaraz irakurri: ‘Stormont Brake’, Belfastek EBko legeei betoa jarri ahal izateko tresna berria
He agreement reached this Monday between the United Kingdom and the European Union (EU) to reform the Northern Ireland Protocol introduces the so-called ‘Stormont Brake’, a new instrument that will allow the Northern Irish Assembly to block the application of new community laws in the territory.
The document introduces the so-called ‘Stormont Brake’, by the name by which the Northern Irish Assembly is known, which will allow Northern Ireland not only to be able to express its opinion on the rules of the single market of the European Union (EU), to it still belongs, but also block its application in the territory.
“This will establish a clear process by which the democratically elected Assembly can press an emergency brake” to introduce changes to community rules on property that would have a “significant and lasting” effect on their daily lives, Sunak explained.
If this “brake” of Stormont is activated, the British Government will be able to veto the application of these new laws in Northern Ireland, he added.
This instrument grants the institutions involved in the historic peace agreement of Good Friday (1998) in the territory to have a new and powerful safeguard, in the opinion of London and Brussels.
Source: Eitb
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