The European Commission is ready to amend the protocol that allows the province to stay in the single market. But she refuses to give up the jurisdiction of the court of Luxembourg as the government of Boris Johnson claims.
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What does the British government play in Northern Ireland? Is it really looking to find a solution to facilitate the lives of North Irish by lightening the constraints of the Ireland sea border imposed by Brexit? These questions are in all heads in Dublin and Brussels while David Frost, the Minister for Europe by Boris Johnson, had to push in advance, during a speech to Lisbon on Tuesday, October 12, proposals that the European Commission will publish. Wednesday, October 13th.
At the request of London, the Community institution is, however, ready to substantially revise the “North Irish Protocol”, the part of the Treaty of Brexit developing the Dual status of the province (member of the United Kingdom but with another foot. in the European internal market). Brussels could propose considerable relief from customs controls for products from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
But David Frost has already indicated that his proposals will be insufficient until the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will retain a right to look at Northern Ireland. But it is a red line within the European institutions, where it is repeated that the internal market is viable only if those who benefit – including the British province – are subject to the same rules and thus to the Court of Luxembourg. The CJUE “created a very strong imbalance in the manner of the protocol to function,” said Mr. Frost from Lisbon. “Without new arrangements on this point, the protocol will never have the support necessary to survive,” had to add the person who approved the Protocol on behalf of the Johnson Government at the end of 2019.
The Commission’s proposals, before the twenty-seven details, respond largely to the concern of local economic actors to alleviate their paperwork obligations. “By making a raw offer, notes a Brussels diplomat, the Commission seeks to introduce a corner between the Northern and London Irish.” Clearly, to convince the British province that Brussels is not this rigid and doctrinal body described. Boris Johnson and the Commission wants to simplify the life of its inhabitants when, opposite, London leads an ideologous policy.
“European stretched hand”
“If the Commission’s proposals are these, there is no foundation to activate Article 16”, “Judge Macronian MEP Nathalie Loiseau, referring to the protocol clause allowing his suspension Unilateral that Mr. Frost regularly threatens to activate. “It’s interesting to note that Northern Ireland goes much better than the rest of the United Kingdom – there is no shortage. This is a real-time illustration of the benefits to be in the single market” , we have the Commission. Mr. Frost “seems more interested in the political posture than by running the protocol. People and businesses in Northern Ireland are tired of its repeated threats and the uncertainty that they maintain,” lamented Monday Louise Haigh , the Minister in Northern Ireland from Keir Starmer’s Ghost Cabinet, Labor Opposition leader.
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