an agreement reached on the question of Northern Ireland

After several months of negotiations, Britain and the European Union have reached a post-Brexit control agreement in Northern Ireland. “The new Windsor agreement protects our respective markets and our respective markets. And above all, it maintains the peace achieved through the Good Friday agreement”, welcomed the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen. Signed in 2020, the Northern Irish protocol regulates the movement of goods between Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom, the only land border with the European Union. The aim was to protect the European single market without jeopardizing the peace agreements by putting a border in the Irish Sea.

Some parts remain to be convinced

“Bureaucracy will no longer require hundreds of certificates for each lorry. And we will end the situation where food made to UK rules could not be shipped to Northern Ireland”said Rishi Sunak, British Prime Minister. It remains to be seen whether this agreement will be able to convince the Northern Irish unionists. Some British MPs, supporters of a hard Brexit, are also skeptical.