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Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee said both sides agreed provisions for Northern Ireland in Britain’s EU withdrawal treaty to ensure fair competition after Brexit and to comply with a 1998 peace pact that put end to three decades of unrest in the province.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Image: AFP
LONDON – Ireland on Sunday dismissed a claim by Prime Minister Boris Johnson that the EU is plotting new destabilizing barriers between Britain and Northern Ireland, as Brexit talks grow increasingly heated.
“That is not the case,” Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee told Sky News. “Any suggestion that this is going to create a new frontier is simply not true,” he said.
McEntee said both parties agreed to provisions for Northern Ireland in Britain’s EU withdrawal treaty to ensure fair competition after Brexit and to comply with a 1998 peace pact that ended three decades of unrest in the Province.
The treaty also “ensures the integrity of Northern Ireland as part of the UK,” he said, and “ensures that we don’t see any kind of resurgence of the border.”
In an article in the Daily Telegraph newspaper on Saturday, Johnson had accused the EU of threatening to tear the UK apart by imposing a food “blockade” between Britain and Northern Ireland.
Johnson said the EU’s stance justified the introduction of new legislation by his government to rewrite its Brexit withdrawal treaty, a bill that is causing deep alarm in Brussels as well as among former British prime ministers. and their own parliamentarians.
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