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Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee on Sunday rejected accusations by British leader Boris Johnson that the European Union (EU) threatened to blockade Northern Ireland after a tense week between London and Brussels.
“It’s just not the case,” Helen McEntee reacted to Sky News on discussions of a post-Brexit deal that escalated this week, stating that “any indication that it will create a border is simply false.”
In a column published Saturday in the British newspaper Daily Telegraph, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his intention to partially reverse the Brexit deal, arguing that he was forced to do so in the face of the “threat” the EU introduces a ” blockade “of Northern Ireland, due to an” extreme interpretation “of the text, which prevents the entry of food products to the United Kingdom.
“I must say that we never seriously believed that the EU could use a treaty, negotiated in good faith, to establish a blockade by the UK, or that they would threaten to destroy the UK’s economic and territorial integrity,” wrote Boris Johnson. in the newspaper article.
Helen McEntee recalled that the provisions of the Northern Ireland treaty codifying the UK’s exit from the EU were accepted by both parties to ensure fair competition after ‘Brexit’.
They also want to prevent the return of a physical border with the island of Ireland, which was affected by three decades of conflict, until the signing of the peace agreement on Good Friday in 1998.
The treaty “also guarantees the integrity of Northern Ireland as an integral part of the UK,” said the Irish Justice Minister, who, she added, “guarantees that no borders will reappear.”
