UK reveals plans to ditch parts of EU Brexit deal

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

UK reveals plans to ditch parts of EU Brexit deal

13 June 2022

The UK government has published plans to get rid of parts of the post-Brexit deal it agreed with the EU in 2019.

It wants to change the Northern Ireland Protocol to make it easier for some goods to flow from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.

But the EU opposes the move, saying that going back on the deal breaches international law.

The government said there is "no other way" of safeguarding essential interests of the UK.

It argues the term "necessity" is used in international law to justify situations where "the only way a state can safeguard an essential interest" is by disapplying - or breaking - another international obligation.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61790248

[Magoo48]

1. Brits love to step on their own peckers as much as we do.

[OnDoutside]

2. They're in a far worse position though. The EU have no choice but to

protect the integrity of the single market and will do so aggressively. Once this starts to hurt English voters, Johnson will be toast.... he's already had 148 votes against him, and there's plenty of opposition to this from inside his own party.