Brexit: London-Brussels co-operation on issues such as Ukraine to be strengthened by resolving Northern Ireland dispute

Resolving the Brexit dispute over trade in Northern Ireland will allow both London and Brussels to focus on foreign policy issues, as the crisis in Ukraine will declare today in the European Union, said Liz Tras Foreign Affairs of Britain.

Britain and the EU have been stuck in talks for months to re-draft a politically divisive protocol for Northern Ireland, agreed by London as part of its exit from the EU two years ago.

The protocol kept Northern Ireland in the unified European market for goods, in order to maintain a politically sensitive open border with Ireland, which is a member of the EU.

To do this, a functional border was established in the Irish Sea, angering supporters of union with Britain, but also of British withdrawal from the EU in Northern Ireland, prompting the British government to seek to redraft the agreement.

Tras will visit Brussels today to discuss the situation with European Commission Vice President Maros Sefkovic.

“It’s important that we all work together to maintain peace and stability in Northern Ireland, to allow us to build a stronger relationship and to focus our foreign policy attention on the situation in Eastern Europe, but also to “Let us stand up against Russian aggression,” she said in a statement.

SOURCE: AMPE

Source: Capital

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