“Due to protocol, Christmas crackers cannot reach Northern Ireland,” Downing Street criticized in its statement.
Talks between the United Kingdom and the European Union (EU) to try to reduce post-Brexit tensions over the Northern Ireland province will continue in London next week, Downing Street announced on Saturday.
Despite the fact that “the conversations held this week have been constructive (…) the reality is that we are still very distant from the major issues” related to the Northern Ireland protocol, a government spokesman said in a statement. British.
This is why the discussions on this text – disapproved by London, which accuses him of generating a return of tensions to his province that still bears the scars of three decades of conflict – will continue next week in the ‘City’.
“A negotiating team from the Commission will travel to London on Tuesday to hold intense discussions for several days,” according to the statement. On the agenda: sanitary measures, as well as customs regulations and controls.
The British Secretary of State in charge of Brexit, David Frost, and the Vice President of the European Commission, Maros Sefcovic, “will meet personally in Westminster to talk at the end of the week,” he said, with the aim of “evaluating the progress achieved.”
Aimed both at protecting the European market and avoiding reestablishing a physical border on the island of Ireland, which could undermine peace, the protocol for Northern Ireland negotiated under Brexit, in fact keeps it in the customs union and on the market. only Europeans.
But it is refuted by London and Northern Irish unionists, supporters of keeping Northern Ireland in the UK. They accuse him of disturbing trade between the province and Great Britain, separated by sea, and aspire to renegotiate it, to which Brussels refuses.
“Because of the protocol, the parties of ‘crackers’ of Christmas can not arrive at Northern Ireland”, criticized Downing Street in his statement, requesting that they look for “solutions of common sense” to reduce the disturbances.
However, the UK government has warned that it remains determined to obtain international arbitration to enforce the laws of the single market in Northern Ireland, rather than the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
This issue of “governance has been the subject of much speculation this week, but our position remains unchanged,” said the spokesperson, “the role of the CJEU in settling disputes between the UK and the EU must end.” (I)
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