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Old 13-06-2022, 18:32   #4123
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Re: Britain outside the EU
As Crime Minister of the UK, how do you distract from being found guilty of breaking British laws that you made? Maybe have a crack at breaking some international ones?

Quote:
EU to take legal action over UK bill to rip up Northern Ireland protocol

Boris Johnson defends ‘trivial’ adjustments, saying Good Friday Agreement trumps Brexit deal

Brussels is to launch legal action against the UK as early as Monday, as a chorus of criticism greeted Boris Johnson’s plan to unilaterally rip up his 2020 Brexit deal with the EU covering trade with Northern Ireland.

Simon Coveney, Ireland’s foreign minister, said Johnson’s unilateral approach marked a “new low”, while a majority of elected members of Northern Ireland’s assembly also attacked the move.

If the UK refuses to pay and comply with its judgment, the EU could end parts of its post-Brexit trade deal, applying tariffs to British goods. Brussels has already indicated it will exclude British scientists from the €95bn Horizon Europe research project, in its first economic reprisal.

The US has also urged Johnson to negotiate with Brussels a settlement to the Northern Ireland problem. Joe Biden, US president, and EU leaders are likely to confront Johnson on the issue at a G7 summit in Germany later this month.

In response to the legislation, Maroš Šefčovič, the European commissioner for Brexit, is expected on Monday afternoon to ask the commission to issue an opinion on the paused legal case — on a unilateral UK decision to delay checks on goods and pets — the final step before going to court.
https://www.ft.com/content/02891815-...1-31c7b592aeef

Of course, signing the original deal was a bit awkward when you had promised no checks to NI back in 2019!
Quote:
There will not be checks, and I speak as the prime minister of the United Kingdom, and a passionate unionist. There will not be checks on goods going from Northern Ireland to Great Britain because we’re the government of the United Kingdom and we will not institute or implement or enact such checks.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...checked-brexit
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