Country has tried to block pacts or introduce new problems, says premier Micheal Martin
The UK has displayed “bad faith” in how it has approached the part of the Brexit treaty dealing with Northern Ireland, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said.
The UK government has long been pushing to rewrite the Northern Ireland Protocol, which keeps the region in the EU’s single market while creating a customs border with the rest of the UK. Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to introduce legislation as soon as Thursday to give ministers the power to override parts of the deal, though the timing could slip, according to people familiar with the matter.
The EU has urged Johnson to continue negotiating over ways to amend the protocol, rather than scrap it. The bloc proposed a set of possible changes last autumn it said would help smooth out problems for people in Northern Ireland. “The UK government is not giving due consideration to the totality of what’s involved in the Good Friday Agreement,” Martin said, referring to the political agreement on how Northern Ireland is governed and largely brought an end to sectarian violence.
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