Brexit: London and the EU at loggerheads over the Northern Irish protocol

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After a two-month break linked to the British local elections, London and Brussels have resumed talking about the implementation of the Northern Irish protocol.

Namely this provision of the withdrawal agreement which provides for customs and health checks between England and Northern Ireland in order to avoid the return to a hard border between the two Irelands and which London has refused to apply for month.

Under pressure from the Unionists (DUP), the big losers in the British elections, the government could adopt legislation next week that would sweep away the protocol, which was approved in the fall of 2019. Indeed, the DUP refuses to join the Northern Irish executive until the protocol is called into question.

Conversely, in the conservative ranks,

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Anyway, London is once again increasing the pressure on Brussels.

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