“We’ve had 25 years of peace in Ireland as a result of the Good Friday Agreement. It is still worth celebrating.'
The 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement is worth celebrating even if the Stormont institutions are not operating, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.
April will see the 25th anniversary of Northern Ireland’s historic Good Friday peace agreement which led to the establishment of the Stormont powersharing institutions.But the devolved bodies have not been operating for almost a year due to the DUP ’s opposition to the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol, which has created trading barriers between the region and the rest of the UK.He said: “The protocol was a response to Brexit. It is working, there is no hard border between north and south.
“But it has created some difficulties. When I talk to business people in Northern Ireland they would talk about those difficulties.“One of the difficulties with the protocol is that when it was agreed by the EU, by the Irish Government, by the UK, there was no Northern Ireland Executive, there was no Northern Ireland Assembly, so it had to be agreed without the Executive or the Assembly to consult.
“One thing we will try to do as we negotiate solutions to the protocol is we will do our very best to get as broad support as possible for any changes .”
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