UK PM, EU Chief To Meet Over Post-Brexit Deals
Date
2/26/2023 7:24:59 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK) Rishi Sunak is to meet
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen in the UK
on Monday over post-Brexit deals, a joint statement said on Sunday,
trend reports
citing xinhua .
Von der Leyen and Sunak 'agreed to continue their work in person
towards shared, practical solutions for the range of complex
challenges around the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland,'
the statement said.
A dispute over the Northern Ireland Protocol -- the rules
governing post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland --
has strained Britain's relations with the European Union (EU).
Under the protocol, Northern Ireland is part of British customs
territory but is subject to the EU's customs code, value-added tax
rules and single market rules for goods.
However, a de facto Irish Sea border was thus created between
the British mainland and Northern Ireland, meaning goods
transported to and from Northern Ireland are subject to border
controls.
Northern Ireland's pro-Brexit Democratic Unionist Party has
demanded the removal or replacement of the protocol as a
precondition for it to sit in the assembly and form a devolved
government.
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