Brexit – Britain accepts problems with the EU – News

• Britain wants to change the already valid Brexit treaty with the EU, on its own.
• The planned change affects controversial contract clauses in Northern Ireland.
• These are meant to avoid a fixed border between British Northern Ireland and the EU state, Ireland.
• The president of the EU Parliament, David Sassoli, warned Britain that any attempt to violate the treaty with the EU would have serious consequences.

With a new bill, changes to the Brexit deal will be introduced in parliament on Wednesday, as announced by Deputy Prime Minister Michael Gove. “This bill will also give the UK government new spending powers to drive our economic recovery from Covid-19,” he said.

“The unelected EU bodies will no longer spend our money on our behalf.” According to Northern Ireland’s Minister Brandon Lewis, the so-called Single Market Act, which is supposed to allow companies to trade freely across the country, could violate international law.

Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin had already warned the British government that a breach of the Brexit agreement would render all negotiations “null and void.”

In the ratified Brexit treaty, London had promised, among other things, that there would be no firm border between Ireland, a member of the EU, and Northern Ireland, which is part of Great Britain. The background is concerns that sectarian clashes in Northern Ireland could flare up again with a hard border.