Britain will change strategy in negotiations Northern Ireland The Brexit agreement will promote the conclusion of a “temporary” agreement to avoid further deterioration of political stability in the region.
The Brexit Minister David Frost will propose a new method based on a “phased solution”, which includes customs declarations and Physical inspection of the goods Give priority to solving the direct impact on people’s lives and livelihoods.
He will also propose a new governance solution that will soften Britain’s request to completely exclude the European Court of Justice from dispute resolution.
On the contrary, it believes that the arbitration proposal in the broader withdrawal agreement-allowing disputes to be resolved in the political sphere first-could play a role in the context of Northern Ireland.
In this case, the European Court of Justice will be invited to express opinions on EU legal issues only when the dispute is not resolved and enters the second stage of the arbitration panel.
A British government source said: “Since the EU will not solve all the problems we have on the table now, we are willing to seek interim solutions to deal with the most acute problems. But any such interim agreement must prevent the European Court of Justice from now And resolve the dispute between us and the EU in the future.”
Lord Frost has repeatedly threatened to use Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol to disrupt negotiations, which will allow him to suspend some transactions. This change will be interpreted as Lord Frost’s major retreat from the edge.
But it seems that concerns that Stormont’s decentralized government may collapse before the May parliamentary elections have renewed attention.
On Friday, Frost and the EU’s Brexit negotiator Maroš Šefčovič will have a virtual meeting for the second time in a week.Frost is expected to announce that negotiations will continue into the new year rather than stop suddenly Due to Article 16.
The EU will also announce a legislative plan to remove barriers to the supply of medicines in Northern Ireland.
Catherine Barnard, a professor of EU law at Cambridge, said that the proposal surrounding Whitehall’s solution to the European Court of Justice is justified, and it actually means replacing Article 12 of the Northern Ireland Protocol with the Article 12 of the Entire Withdrawal Agreement. Articles 169 to 174.
“I always thought it was a wise compromise. But it requires a compromise between both sides,” she said.
“This will require the UK to recognize that the European Court of Justice has some role, but it also requires the EU to make major compromises because it means that they have not fully applied the EU remedial system to resolve disputes,” she added.
It also needs to rephrase part of the withdrawal agreement that the EU has been strongly opposed to.
