The European Union has announced fresh legal action against the UK in response to the British government’s move to unilaterally scrap parts of an agreement governing Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements.
The Foreign Office said on Monday that the UK’s move is intended to “fix parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol—making the changes necessary to restore stability and ensure the delicate balance of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement is protected.”
But European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday that the UK government had set out to “unilaterally break international law.”
The UK government’s plan would mean “breaking an agreement that protects peace and stability in Northern Ireland, an agreement reached together only three years ago” by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government and the EU, Sefcovic said….