Boris Johnson due to meet Northern parties on Monday following election
In a blunt assessment of the political impasse that has paralysed the Northern Assembly, Mr Martin said it appeared to him the
“But the European Union really has never got a landing zone from the British government in relation to the protocol. It’s very unclear what will suffice for the British government. We have some sense of what would work with unionism, but we don’t have that sense with the British government.” “That was a deliberate attempt, it seems to me, to undermine what Maros Sefcovic was about and we need less of that from the British government to be frank and the problem for Europe is that Europe is not sure and has no trust now as to what would settle the protocol issue.”
The British prime minister has said that the protocol is turning into a political problem and that it is not working in the context of Northern Ireland. He has demanded changes to it despite agreeing to it in 2019 and the British government has warned that it will act unilaterally to change the protocol if agreement cannot be reached with the EU.
“Then the executive and the assembly can make a strong contribution to the resolution of the issues around the protocol, but I think the British government needs to think long and hard and think on its strategy and its approach because in my view, its unilateral approach is not helpful whatsoever.” “Lets be clear – the protocol is going nowhere. The protocol is a necessary outworking of Brexit which theand the DUP campaigned for. We will not be collateral damage in the Brexit negotiations,” she said.
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