EU-UK claim 'Windsor Framework' to resolve Northern Ireland trade dispute
Saeed Pourreza
PRESS TV, London
Years after Brexit, they’re still talking about it. One big sticking point, the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol for trade, legislation that at one point threatened the Good Friday Peace agreement and pushed the EU and UK to the brink of a trade war. Officials on both sides of the dispute now claim they have found a solution to the problem, and they have a name for it, too.
Under the new deal, there will be two routes for goods entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK: a green route with minimal checks for goods which will stay in N Ireland and a red one for goods which may continue into the EU after going through EU checks.
Disputes will be settled by Northern Ireland courts but some could still go to the European Court of Justice. And if new EU single market regulations are introduced the UK government could veto them if the Northern Ireland assembly has voted for that to happen.
The details of the deal are yet to emerge. But Prime Minister Sunak faces two challenges: one is to get the approval of the Democratic Unionists in Northern Ireland who have refused to enter a power-sharing government with Sinn Fein nationalists for months over the Boris Johnson era Protocol which has created a sea border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
In Westminster, the Prime Minister's has brief his cabinet who seem to be onside.
Another will be the Eurosceptic conservative MPs of European Research Group in the building behind me who’ve already said they’re worried the revised deal doesn’t go far enough…meaning, the deal is not quite done yet.
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