UK reveals plans to ditch parts of EU Brexit deal

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

UK reveals plans to ditch parts of EU Brexit deal

13 June 2022

The UK government has published plans to get rid of parts of the post-Brexit deal it agreed with the EU in 2019.

It wants to change the Northern Ireland Protocol to make it easier for some goods to flow from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.

But the EU opposes the move, saying that going back on the deal breaches international law.

The government said there is "no other way" of safeguarding essential interests of the UK.

It argues the term "necessity" is used in international law to justify situations where "the only way a state can safeguard an essential interest" is by disapplying - or breaking - another international obligation.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61790248

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Notice that they sneaked in a demand to ditch the European Court of Justice's role in the agreement

although there is no "necessity", by anyone's definition, of changing that arrangement. That's there purely to satisfy the Tory anti-European nutters.

Any problems that the Protocol is causing are debatable, anyway - and were certainly foreseeable by this Tory government as it negotiated and signed this "oven-ready deal" that "got Brexit done".