#Brexit stands as a cautionary tale to the people of Europe. We must never take peace and prosperity for granted. Value it, fight for it and defend it every day.

The plan has brought some Tory unity, but Brussels believes it is unworkable.

"We can’t allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit. Any trade deal between the U.S. and U.K. must be contingent upon respect for the Agreement and preventing the return of a hard border. Period."

Shockwaves felt both sides of Irish divide over plan to renege on withdrawal agreement.

As UK public feeling shifts back to a pro-European stance, is it time to positively charge the nature of the conversation?

Northern Ireland’s first minister has paid the price for believing the promises of the hard Brexiteers.

EU CHIEF Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier is to meet Sinn Féin and DUP representatives today as the countdown begins to the UK leaving the European Union on Friday.

A BBC presenter has been praised for his two-and-a-half minute explainer of Brexit - in a clip that some viewers said demonstrates why it "fundamentally won't work".

JOE Biden will tell Boris Johnson not to let the row over Northern Ireland's Brexit arrangements put the Good Friday Agreement at risk when the pair meet today.

US President Joe Biden will bring a grave Brexit warning to his first meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Prevent a row with the European Union from imperilling the delicate peace in Northern Ireland, write Steve Holland and Guy Faulconbridge.

US president Joe Biden can “see through the spin and fog” from London on the Northern Ireland protocol and will urge the British government to implement the deal it agreed, Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney said on Wednesday.

In a move rarely seen between allies, Washington issued London with a demarche: a formal diplomatic reprimand usually reserved for adversaries.

BILL CLINTON has hit out at the UK’s handling of the ongoing Brexit negotiations for creating “tremendous uncertainty” in Northern Ireland.

In an interview to be broadcast on RTÉ's Prime Time, former US President Bill Clinton and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will speak the impact Brexit has had on the Good Friday Agreement.

Former prime ministers urge MPs to reject legislation, saying it endangers Irish peace process.

Ex-Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Sir John Major have urged MPs to reject the "shameful" attempt to override parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.

A series of demonstrations will be held along the Border next week telling UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to "back off" on plans to trigger Article 16.

An old conflict and a new Border: How Britain's exit from the European Union could threaten 20 years of peace in Northern Ireland.

Johnson’s administration made promises over Northern Ireland deal it knew were unworkable, former PM tells MPs.

Boris Johnson’s plans to tear up post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland have come under fierce attack from Washington, with senior congressmen on both sides of the US political divide warning the “irresponsible” move is a threat to peace in the province.

Remarks come as foreign secretary Dominic Raab visits Washington for meetings with senior US politicians.

Boris Johnson is scrambling to avoid his big G7 Summit from sliding into a damage limitation exercise.

PM risks major confrontation with Joe Biden by persevering with internal market bill.

Not before time, Boris Johnson has resigned as leader of the UK’s Conservative Party. The Guardian reports that Johnson’s leadership “toppled under a wave of sleaze allegations and failure to tell the truth.” But his real scandal lies elsewhere — with Brexit.

Wales Governance Centre Annual Lecture - 2021 - Brigid Laffan: This lecture analyses how Ireland responded to Brexit and the manner in which Brexit disturbed the delicate political and institutional balances that were central to the Good Friday Agreement.

The UK’s move to tear up rules over Northern Ireland is ‘dangerous’ and could put the peace process at risk, US lawmakers warned.

Ireland finally has one of its own in the White House. And Joe Biden’s arrival in the Oval Office may well prove pivotal in protecting the Northern Ireland peace process in the face of Brexit — Britain’s inexplicable decision to leave the world’s biggest trading partnership.

Molotov cocktails and barricades have returned to Northern Ireland. The conflict there is 4 centuries old. But Brexit is the new reason why the situation has reached the boiling point in what had been an era of peace.

Economic advantages of NI’s new trading arrangement overlooked by rejectionist rhetoric.

Archbishops warn bill could ‘further undermine trust and goodwill’ among home nations.

Posters demanding “No Irish Sea Border”, “Scrap NI Protocol” and “EU Hands Off Ulster” cover much of the 35-km (20-mile) route, their opposition to the new trading arrangements emphasised by the flying of Britain’s Union Jack flag every few lampposts.

Former prime minister Sir John Major has told the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee Britain made a “colossal mistake” when it left the European Union. / Sir John said while he is not a “significant Europhile”, he believes the UK was stronger in the EU.

Ex-PM says UK was stronger in the EU – as Jeremy Hunt challenged to admit Britain ‘poorer’ after Brexit.

In this new Federal Trust video, Professor A.C.Grayling discusses the path by which he believes Brexit can and should be reversed.

Pro-Remain parties in Northern Ireland criticise ‘petty’ decision by UK government.

Former prime minister declares that trade deal is off the table until problems are solved.

Ministers are portraying themselves as victims of a deal they created for Northern Ireland. A classic blame-shifting strategy.

But as Kieran Devine writes, while over 65s are typically treated as a single category in opinion polls, there are substantial generational differences within this group, with those who lived through the Second World War being far more likely to oppose Brexit.

Micheal Martin warned the move to override parts of the international deal could “destabilise” politics in Northern Ireland.

A FORMER British diplomat said one government minister dismissed the risk of a no-deal Brexit on Irish firms as only affecting "a few farmers with turnips in the back of their trucks".

Report suggests that almost half of Britain thinks the UK’s relationship with the EU is more important for peace, stability and prosperity than our relationship with the US or the Commonwealth.

Former US president Bill Clinton believes it is a "miracle" that the Good Friday Agreement survived the Brexit process.

UK PM Boris Johnson had been wildly happy about his new EU exit deal; then he introduced a law undermining both it, and the last round of trade negotiations. Speaking with two former permanent secretaries of the UK’s EU exit department, Matt Ross asks whether Johnson is applying firm leverage – or deliberately sabotaging the trade talks.

Conservative Baroness Couttie said there is a lack of evidence to back up the government's claim that the EU is acting in bad faith.

The 48% of Britons who voted Remain in the EU exit referendum last year need to be taken into account in the negotiation process which just got underway, said Polish MEP Danuta Hübner, the powerful chair of the European Parliament’s constitutional affairs committee.

Legal action is also reportedly being considered by Brussels, and a top Democrat has warned a UK-US trade deal is at risk.

Emmanuel Macron’s attack on UK’s failure to implement Brexit deal wrecks claims of G7 ‘harmony’.

Maroš Šefčovič says Brussels will launch fresh legal action against UK over treaty obligations.

‘We stand by our commitments’, says president Ursula von der Leyen.

Ireland‘s EU commissioner has launched a scathing attack on Boris Johnson, accusing the “unelected prime minister” of “gambling” with the Irish peace process.

The European Union launched legal action against Britain on Monday for unilaterally changing trading arrangements for Northern Ireland that Brussels says breach the Brexit divorce deal agreed with London last year.

Bloc says it will not renegotiate agreement and threatens to take ministers to court for ‘damaging’ unilateral action.

The European Union sued Britain on Wednesday (local time) over its move to rewrite the trade rules agreed to when the country left the EU two years ago, ratcheting up tensions between the major economic partners.

‘Impossible’ that British alternative NI plan can work, says Italy’s minister for European affairs Vincenzo Amendola.

Prime minister told to stick to agreement, to ‘protect peace and stability on the island and integrity of the single market’

A senior European Union official has expressed frustration after talks with the U.K. broke up without resolving differences over the implementation of their post-Brexit trade deal in Northern Ireland

A top European Union official said Wednesday that Britain could face retaliatory tariffs or other sanctions after talks failed to resolve an increasingly heated dispute over implementation of their post-Brexit trade deal in Northern Ireland.

The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its achievements in bringing peace, democracy and human rights to Europe.

Brexit is not inevitable. For the sake of our children, let’s stay and fight for a better EU, before we do more damage.

‘The game is up’: Former taoiseach strongly criticises British government’s negotiating stance. / Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said that the “game is up” for British negotiators irrespective of whether or not Article 16 is triggered.

‘No third country can enjoy the same benefits as an EU member’

It is the second double-decker bus to be torched in the past week, amid protests against the Northern Ireland protocol.

The prime minister has imperilled peace in Northern Ireland, and every day the economic fallout worsens.

Britain's decision to leave the EU has seriously undermined the peace efforts in Europe, a former Tory politician has claimed.

The full text of the Good Friday Agreement [aka Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland Peace Agreement]

A former Downing Street chief of staff and architect of the Good Friday Agreement has accused the British government of destroying its trust with the Irish government over the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Downing Street says it is prepared to overturn any changes to the legislation.

Former Secretary of State Peter Hain has backed claims the Prime Minister is guilty of endangering the peace process in pursuit of Brexit.

What should we call a project that poleaxes the economy, destroys our global reputation and threatens political stability in Northern Ireland? If we had known what would come to pass, how would we have voted on it six years ago?

The Irish political party pushing to unify the island wants Ottawa to halt post-Brexit trade talks with Britain, arguing that London is undermining the agreement that brokered peace between Catholics and Protestants.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Simon Coveney about the latest developments regarding Britain's exit from the European Union and Ireland's upcoming seat on the U.N. Security Council.

The Irish Government believes the office would be a reflection of the EU's 'ongoing support' for the peace process.

The British government appears to have no political will to resolve its festering trade dispute with the European Union and risks endangering the hard-won peace in Northern Ireland, Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said Wednesday.

Prime minister’s ‘take it or leave it’ proposals described as unworkable and illegal.

In an extraordinary diplomatic rebuke a senior US diplomat accused the UK's Brexit Minister of 'inflaming tensions' over Northern Ireland in a trade row.

The president of America will tell Boris Johnson not to let the row over Northern Ireland's Brexit arrangements put the Good Friday Agreement at risk as the two meet up in Cornwall ahead of G7 summit on Thursday.

Joe Biden's administration has warned the British government against anything that would put the Northern Ireland peace process at risk.

Presidential candidate says any US-UK trade deal must be contingent upon respect for agreement.

Senior Conservatives are not backing down on their rebellion against Boris Johnson's controversial Brexit legislation despite his warning that the EU could "carve up" the United Kingdom without it.

Ivan Rogers, former UK ambassador to the EU, says prime minister will think ‘history was going his way’ if Donald Trump is re-elected

The Brexiteer admitted that Northern Ireland had been "thrown under the bus".

Bill hands ‘breath-taking’ powers to ministers, warns Hansard Society. / Boris Johnson’s legal justification for tearing up his agreement with the EU on post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland has been branded “hopeless” by the government’s former chief lawyer.

If other countries don’t trust us to stick to what we agreed, it makes it harder to strike new deals in the future.

“The Northern Ireland Protocol was a significant achievement during the volatile Brexit process, and its full implementation is critical for ensuring Brexit doesn’t undermine decades of progress toward peace on the island of Ireland. ..."

German chancellor also shares views on Brexit and climate crisis in interview. / Europe must reposition itself to stand up to the challenges posed by its three big global rivals, China, Russia and the US, Angela Merkel has said before her final European election as German chancellor.

Brexit campaigner said Belfast Agreement was a ‘rigged referendum’ and ‘mortal stain’. / Michael Gove is a “fanatic” who would be “dangerous” for the Northern Irish peace process and North-South relations if he won the Conservative Party leadership election, senior figures involved in the design and implementation of the Belfast Agreement have warned.

I look back to 1973 as the post-war year when Britain accepted the loss of its empire and chose a new European destiny.

The EU's former chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, says changes the UK wants to make to the Northern Ireland protocol have caused him to lose trust because what is at stake is not goods or trade but peace.

The 122 signatories warned that Brexit will threaten peace and friendship in Europe. / On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, more than 120 military veterans have signed a letter warning that peace and friendship in Europe is threatened by Brexit.

Marking three years since the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, and 50 years since its accession to the European Economic Community, UK in a Changing Europe will bring together leading authorities to discuss the UK/EU relationship. Panelists include former EU Commissioners, journalists, academics, and politicians.

SF MLA says changes to withdrawal deal would drive ‘coach and horses’ through Belfast Agreement.

Andrew Marr grills Conor Burns MP as he struggles to name an American politician supportive of the government's plan to scrap parts of the NI Protocol without EU support.

Prize motivation: "for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe."

The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe. The committee said the EU had helped to transform Europe "from a continent of war to a continent of peace".

“What worries me is the casual political vandalism. They really don’t seem to care," Tony Blair's former chief negotiator on Northern Ireland has said.

DUP MP accuses UK government’s Brexit deal of “disrupting peace”.

The signing of the Belfast Agreement in 1998 brought an end to decades of extreme political violence in Northern Ireland. But more than 20 years later, the peace process still faces threats and both loyalist and republican paramilitary groups continue to operate.

Northern Ireland was created 100 years ago Monday, but the day passed with little fanfare.

Panel including former US envoy appeals to UK and Irish governments to work together on paramilitary disbandment.

The British government has chosen unilaterally to break the protocol, which it signed two years ago – but Europe stands by it.

In Northern Ireland, the consequences of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, known as Brexit, are threatening to unravel the twenty-five-year-old Good Friday Agreement.

The lord chief justice in Northern Ireland will tomorrow consider granting an immediate injunction to block the suspension of parliament.

Since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, the Government has announced it is spending an extra £2bn on no-deal contingency planning.

Companies including Coca Cola, Norbrook Laboratories write open letter to British MPs.

Patrick Stewart, speaks about the importance of the European Union and how it has been an integral part of his life.

International Fund for Ireland chairman Paddy Harte said it is impossible to rule out future disorder.

The head of a major peace fund in the north has warned paramilitary groups on both sides of the divide there are gaining support from vulnerable communities who feel they have been let down by the peace process. / "Brexit has brought up issues of culture and identity, and raised old sores that had gone well into the background."

Labour's Lord Falconer tells HuffPost UK internal market bill could cost Britain a "terrible price" with peers set to defeat government.

Ex-ambassador says Democrat White House would prioritise France and Germany.

Nicos Anastasiades says Cyprus will stand up for peace in Ireland and the backstop.

“The dangerous and inflammatory rhetoric emanating from Boris Johnson’s Government is now undermining all of the progress we have made in recent years."

The Progressive Unionist Party, which is politically aligned to the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force, has said there is “no basis” for unionists to continue to support the Good Friday Agreement peace accord.

In 1992, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Her speech followed the signing of the Maastricht Treaty - the foundation of today's European Union. Drawing on the words of Winston Churchill, she paid tribute to those who rebuilt Europe in the wake of conflict and praised the Parliament as a leading democratic forum.

Ms Greer also warned of the depth of sentiment around the issue of Ireland in the US, saying: 'The United States is Irish'

The Republic’s EU Affairs Minister has urged Britain not to jeopardise the peace process in its dispute over new trading arrangements with the EU.

The US Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has sent a letter to the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warning that he will strongly oppose any US-UK trade deal that undermines the Good Friday Agreement or facilitates a return to a hard border.

As small businesses crumble, shelves get emptier and the care-worker shortage intensifies, life outside the EU is having a dire effect on many of us. Why aren’t politicians talking about it?

Friday marked 50 years since Ireland signed the treaty in Brussels that took the fledging state into the European Economic Community.

Across the UK, the reality of Brexit is increasingly becoming a threat. Food and fuel shortages, and concerns about energy prices, are tangible worries. Here, we use a social identity approach to highlight this Brexit threat is amplified and takes on additional meaning in Northern Ireland because of the identities that are writ large – not least because of the country’s tumultuous past.

The Good Friday Agreement was born of the most painstaking talks I ever took part in. Now our prime minister threatens to rip it apart.

Leaders of the 50 countries that comprise the EU and the Arab League, together with the European Institutions, are set to meet in Egypt’s Sharm el Sheikh on 24-25th February in an unprecedented summit encounter.

An extract from 'A Call for Revolution: An Appeal to the Young of the World'.

One of the greatest political achievements of our time is at risk of becoming a casualty of a Brexit neither country voted for in the first place, writes Emma DeSouza.

Since the end of the Second World War, we have moved from an international system in which war was legal, and accepted as the ultimate arbiter of disputes between nations, to one in which it was not.

Across the world, there is incomprehension at what we have done to ourselves.

As some towns double down on their European links while others fight to remove them, Holly Eva Ryan reflects on what twinning really means.

Since the Treaty of Rome was signed on March 25, 1957, peace and prosperity is arguably the EU's most notable achievement and greatest legacy.

Since the Treaty of Rome was signed on March 25, 1957, peace and prosperity is arguably the EU's most notable achievement and greatest legacy. This is something many Remain voters have consistently pointed out since the U.K. decided to leave the EU but how valid is that claim?

The U.K. government has pushed ahead with controversial plans to unilaterally override post-Brexit trade rules, ratcheting up the risk of a trade war as the European Union prepares to take retaliatory legal action.

The UK may no longer be an EU member but, as the current health crisis shows, cooperation continues to be essential.

‘It would be economically very, very dangerous for Britain, and for the peace process in Ireland it would potentially be devastating’

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 award winning director behind the powerful BBC docu-series Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland has expressed optimism that peace will survive in the face of challenges. / “It seems particularly short-sighted and frankly stupid to wreck an incredibly complex peace process over something which is an internal battle in the Tory party,” he said.

A former Canadian general played a key role in creating the Good Friday accord.

Tearing up Northern Ireland protocol ‘will spark trade war, drive up inflation and damage UK influence’, warns senior Tory MP.

Alexandra Hall Hall says UK ‘damagingly’ downplayed impact on NI peace process.

Alexandra Hall Hall says UK ‘damagingly’ downplayed impact on NI peace process.

Former MP says problem is not sausages but ‘porkies’ from Downing Street.

A new short film commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement has claimed that Brexit poses the biggest threat to peace in the North since the 1994 ceasefire.

British MEP Richard Ashworth’s speech in the European Parliament on Wednesday claiming Brexit was a “cautionary tale” to Europe has received a significant response on social media getting shared by many across the continent.

The UK position 14 months ago is in sharp contrast to the flat rejection of an EU office in Belfast under Boris Johnson's government.

Stephen Goodall is among the elderly campaigners calling for a second referendum, while other veterans back Brexit. / "The European Union was designed for peace, and personally, I believe that Brexit is the single most cowardly thing this country has done because we are running away from our friends and allies."

European affairs minister says British government out of step with preserving peace with protocol threats.

Frost’s latest remarks have been slammed as “a very strange way to make friends and build partnerships”.

1998 Good Friday Agreement ‘a historic achievement that we should protect’, says Blinken.

Move shows Capitol Hill supports peace process and opposes anything threatening it.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the intervention from US President Joe Biden on the row over Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit position was “significant”. / President Biden ordered US officials to issue Boris Johnson with an extraordinary diplomatic rebuke for imperilling the Northern Ireland peace process over Brexit.

Dominic Raab faces backlash over Irish border and attempts to leave EU on own terms.

As the disastrous impact of leaving the EU becomes clearer, UK citizens should be allowed another say.

The Q&A session taken from the Brexit, What leaving on WTO terms will mean, held in Trowbridge on the 26/9/2018 in front of an audience of 180.

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will underscore the importance of the Good Friday Agreement when they meet with Ireland’s prime minister about Northern Ireland on Wednesday.

Fresh from scandals and an attempted ousting, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s latest plan is to tear up key parts of a post-Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland he made himself less than three years ago.

Ursula von der Leyen says EU will ‘never backtrack’ on withdrawal agreement.

South Armagh people unsure of impact on them if UK crashes out of EU.

‘I can’t believe that any side would be acting in such a cavalier way when we're talking about a fragile peace in the North of Ireland’

Brussels has announced it is taking legal action against the UK government after Boris Johnson pushed ahead with plans to overwrite parts of the Brexit agreement.