Green is the color of the traditional parade of the Saint Patrick’s day which has brought tens of thousands of tourists to Dublin to celebrate the national holiday of Ireland. Music bands, floats, and aerial acrobatics that filled the streets of the Irish capital on Friday. Following the annual St. Patrick’s Day tradition, Irish Prime … Read more
“We may have had our differences in the past, but we are allies, trading partners and friends.” This is how the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, referred to the European Union this week after announcing a new agreement on the protocol for Northern Ireland, one of the great obstacles between the two after the Brexit. … Read more
It was an eternal divorce process. After a tight majority of the British (almost 52 percent) voted in a referendum in June 2016 in favor of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, the negotiating parties took almost five years to reach a Withdrawal Agreement that minimally satisfied both parties. Negotiations were arduous, the deadlines … Read more
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Sinn Féin, the former political wing of the now inactive IRA, made history in the last May elections in Northern Ireland by becoming, for the first time, the party with the most votes since the partition of the island in 1921. The Agreement of Good Friday of 1998, which sealed peace between Catholics and Protestants … Read more
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair will return to Northern Ireland in the summer of 2023, it announced on Thursday. The low-cost carrier will serve 12 destinations, or 115 flights a week, from Belfast International Airport. Ryanair announced last year that it would stop flying from Belfast International Airport and Belfast City Airport from the fall of … Read more
US warns London against ‘unilateral’ acts in Northern Ireland US State Department counselor Derek Chollet today urged the UK to rule out “unilateral” acts in Northern Irelandafter the British Government has advanced that it is preparing a law to revoke part of the Brexit agreements that regulate the status of the region. “We want to … Read more
Related news Tense telephone conversation between the UK Foreign Secretary, Liz Trussand the Vice President of the European Commission and responsible for Brexit, Maros Sefcovic. The head of British diplomacy has officially informed Brussels of her intention to unilaterally abolish the customs and sanitary controls provided for in the Northern Ireland protocol. A measure that … Read more
First modification: 06/05/2022 – 16:06 – The British Conservatives are retreating in important constituencies of the capital, in local elections with test value for Boris Johnson, who despite being weakened by the scandals could survive if the main opposition party obtains mitigated results. The Labor Party, the leading opposition force, gained control of the highly … Read more