Boris Johnson rejected Brussels’ latest attempt to resolve post-Brexit arrangements. Northern Ireland, Insisting that the withdrawal agreement signed last year must be renegotiated.
A series of proposals issued by the State Council European Commission Monday aimed to relax the implementation of the Northern Ireland agreement was deemed insufficient to solve the scale of the problem.
A spokesman for the British government said that both sides need a “comprehensive and lasting solution.” David FrostThe minister in charge of Brexit affairs has stated that if there are no major changes to the legal text of the agreement, the government will consider triggering Article 16 of the EU-UK agreement to suspend some of the agreements.
If it can be proved that “serious economic, social or environmental difficulties” are occurring, such actions are allowed. But the committee may question such a decision. It is likely to enter arbitration, thereby increasing the risk of trade sanctions.
government Issue command file Last week, it detailed the key changes it hopes to make to the arrangements for Northern Ireland to actually remain in the EU single market, as well as the implementation of EU customs rules for goods passing through the Irish Sea.
A spokesman for the British government said that only by meeting Downing Street’s requirements can a series of problems that have caused political instability and violence in Northern Ireland in recent months be resolved.
However, he stated that the content of the EU proposal is “only a small part of the many difficulties caused by the operation of the agreement”.
“If we are to avoid further interference with daily life in Northern Ireland, we need a comprehensive and lasting solution,” he added.
On Monday, the United Kingdom blatantly rejected the committee’s proposals on some difficult issues, including the flow of drugs from the United Kingdom to Northern Ireland and the flow of guide dogs and cattle, which further plunged the two sides into conflict.
A series of grace periods will end in October and January next year, and the committee insists that it will not rewrite the legal text agreed with Johnson in 2019.
Lord Frost insisted that he sincerely hoped that the protocol would succeed, but he could not imagine a situation in which no new negotiations on the text would have the support of all communities in Northern Ireland. The order document issued last week indicated that political pressure in 2019 forced the government to agree to the agreement and sign it in 2020.
Loyalist groups claim that the agreement is undermining their British identity by setting up trade barriers within the United Kingdom.
The committee recommended that it rewrite its laws to allow British regulators to approve drugs shipped to Northern Ireland-but strictly based on their implementation of EU law.
A spokesman for the British government said that the proposal still falls short of the requirements. “The EU proposal is a welcome start, but it is complicated and cumbersome to operate, and it will not deal with those drugs, such as new anti-cancer drugs. According to the current arrangement, these drugs must be approved by the European Medicines Agency of Northern Ireland. Permit,” he said.
