Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said the UK government is behaving in an "extraordinary way" over Brexit.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said "trust has been damaged and eroded" between the EU and the UK due to the "hugely irresponsible" actions of the British government in signalling its intent to override elements of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.
Treaty of Paris, 1951 [wikipedia]
18/04/1951
The treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.
The U.K.’s most senior Anglican bishops have warned that legislation breaching part of the Brexit divorce agreement the government signed with the European Union will set a “disastrous precedent” and could undermine peace in Northern Ireland.
The technology field will be hurt by the Data Bill and the breakdown of Horizon.
Boris Johnson’s plans to shred the Northern Ireland protocol have no basis in law, economics or diplomacy.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has warned that the UK government is going to cause serious damage to its reputation internationally if proceeds with plans to unilaterally change parts of the Northern Ireland protocol as other countries will have reservations about trusting the UK in future treaties.
The status of Brexit checks at Northern Ireland ports remained unclear on Thursday morning after a deadline passed for a ministerial order to halt them.
One of Boris Johnson’s most senior law officers has quit in protest at the government’s plans to break international law over Brexit.
Treaty which led to the creation of Europe's Schengen Area, in which internal border checks have largely been abolished.
Coveney joins NI politicians in condemning move by North’s Minister of Agriculture.
The list of bizarre things Boris Johnson is proposing to do to an international treaty he negotiated is growing. The target of these notions is the Northern Ireland protocol, which parliament ratified as part of the UK-EU withdrawal agreement more than a year ago.
Peers inflict heaviest defeat for more than 20 years over bill that will break international law
20/10/2020
Warning that legislation ‘would undermine rule of law and damage reputation of UK’ passes with thumping majority of 226.
A government minister has said a new bill to amend the UK's Brexit deal with the EU will "break international law".
Northern Ireland protocol: EU to begin legal action over UK plans to override Brexit deal
12/06/2022
Brussels is set to reveal details of action despite ministers’ insistence the the Northern Ireland protocol plans do not break international law.
With a potential trade war looming, Conservatives are stuck in an ever-more destructive disagreement over what Britain should look like outside the EU.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has responded to UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s assertion that the legislation to set aside aspects of the Northern Ireland protocol is “not a big deal”.
A top European Union official dealing with the United Kingdom says that a cliff-edge rupture between the two without even a basic trade deal by the end of the year is becoming more likely by the day.
The UK government has announced further delays to some Irish Sea border checks. / The checks are a requirement of the Northern Ireland Protocol, a deal reached by the UK and EU in 2019.
New legislation will erode trust and could have implications for the UK’s international reputation
08/09/2020
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned Boris Johnson not to break international law by attempting to redefine the terms of the protocol.