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London regrets the EU ultimatum and demands to negotiate a joint solution

The Government of the United Kingdom has been “disappointed” by the decision of the European Commission to reactivate the infringement procedure for breaches of the Brexit agreement and has insisted that its priority remains a negotiated solution to the current disputes. London presented its bill on Monday to unilaterally challenge the Northern Ireland Protocol included in Brexit, despite the fact that Brussels had already been warning that doing so would lead to measures. Boris Johnson’s government, however, has regretted the European step and he hopes to be able to agree with the other party on any future change, according to a Downing Street spokesman quoted by the BBC.

The European Union considers that failure to comply with the safeguards provided to prevent the return to a physical border in Ulster It supposes a “violation of international law” insofar as the Withdrawal Agreement that sets the conditions of divorce is an international Treaty. However, the British authorities appeal to the “doctrine of necessity”, which means arguing that the aforementioned Protocol represents a “danger” for social stability and politics in Northern Ireland. They also maintain that they have had no choice but to act on their own in the face of the EU’s alleged inaction. The step announced this Wednesday by the European Commission means giving London two months to back down on the law that unilaterally breaks with the pact or will bring the case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In total, Brussels has opened three sanctioning files.

In the eyes of the Twenty-Seven, The United Kingdom intends with its latest law set the conditions for access to the Single Market unilaterally” and this is “inconceivable and unacceptable”, warned the vice president of the Community Executive responsible for relations with the United Kingdom, Maros Sefcovic, who has insisted that there is still room for consensual solutions, condition that The United Kingdom also agrees to negotiate. In this way, the community vice-president has clung to the last offer of agreement presented by the European negotiators last autumn to “make more flexible” the application of the rules of the protocol and save practical problems detected by Northern Irish companies and citizens once it was consummated the Brexit.

Sefcovic has insisted on remembering that It took “more than four years” reach an agreement between the parties, which was later “signed and ratified” by both, and that the result of the negotiation was “the best solution that could be found” to respect the three red lines, alluding to the need to protect the Good Friday Peace Agreements, avoid returning to a physical border with security forces between the two Irelands and guarantee the proper functioning of the Single Market. “We are ready to demonstrate that the protocol offers sufficient legal space for a fluid application, without invasive controls”, assured the community politician, who also lamented that in the time for negotiations to make more flexible the London protocol has not put forward any “serious” proposal to seek agreement.

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