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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the British to support his government in defending the bill that nullifies parts of the UK’s exit agreement from the European Union (EU) on Saturday. “We are going to get the EU to remove threats from the table and we are going to get this bill passed, supporting our negotiators and protecting our country,” the politician wrote on his Twitter account.
Let’s get the EU to remove its threats from the table.
And let’s get this bill passed, support our negotiators, and protect our country 🇬🇧
https://t.co/7AXOO361js– Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) September 12, 2020
The message was shared with an opinion piece by the British ruler, published today in the Daily Telegraph. In it, Boris Johnson assumed that he wanted to annul parts of the agreement, justifying the claim with a threat from Brussels. The UK prime minister said the EU threatened to advance a “food bloc” to Northern Ireland, which would endanger “peace and unity” in the UK.
Despite admitting that the British government’s claims violate international law, Boris Johnson argues that circumstances forced him to take an extreme position. “Unless we accept the EU conditions, the EU will use an extreme interpretation of the Northern Ireland Protocol to impose a full trade border along the Irish Sea,” he wrote.
“They tell us that the European Union not only imposes customs duties on the transport of goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, but that it could block the transport of food from Great Britain to Northern Ireland,” he stressed.
Johnson recalled that the withdrawal agreement and the Irish Protocol were negotiated in good faith and therefore regrets that Brussels uses them “to establish a blockade in part of the United Kingdom”, threatening “to destroy the economic and territorial integrity of the United Kingdom” .
“We cannot let theoretical power divide our country in the hands of an international organization,” he stressed.
Johnson therefore regretted that the EU interpretation endangered “peace and stability” in the UK, which “has been bloody for three decades”, until the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement.
It is a proposal for a law on the internal market in the United Kingdom published on Wednesday, against which the European Commission threatened legal action, warning that “violation of the terms of the exit agreement would violate international law, undermine confidence and would jeopardize future ongoing negotiations on relations.
However, the proposed internal market law runs counter to parts of the Brexit deal, by preventing the application of EU law in the event that negotiations for a post-Brexit trade deal between London and Brussels fail on issues such as the declarations. of exports, state aid and customs controls with respect to Northern Ireland.
The withdrawal agreement and also the Northern Ireland Protocol were drawn up precisely with the aim of protecting the peace process in Northern Ireland, avoiding the need for a physical border between British territory and EU member Ireland. Therefore, any customs control should take place between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom, which are separated by the Irish Sea.
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