The UK publishing legislation that will override the NI Protocol will represent a new low in British-Irish relations since the Good Friday Agreement was signed, says Simon Coveney
Image: RollingNews.ie Image: RollingNews.ie FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER Simon Coveney has warned that the European Union’s position on the Northern Ireland Protocol has “hardened” in the face of the UK threat to unilaterally scrap part of the arrangements.
“Instead all of the signals are about unilateral action, making demands with no willingness to compromise, and that has hardened the EU response to what they’re seeing coming out of London now.“So, we need to find a way to arrest this rot in relationships and instead to look to compromise, to negotiation, to dialogue, to solve what are genuine issues and concerns,” he said.
“I just want to reinforce what the Taoiseach said this week when he said that should that legislation be published it really will represent a new low in British-Irish relations since the Good Friday Agreement was signed,” he said. “The answer here is to act as a partner and a neighbour to work these issues out together to respond to genuine unionist concerns in Northern Ireland, and we do want to respond to those.
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