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• Wednesday, May 18th 2022 - 09:26 UTC

  Changes to Northern Ireland Protocol by London could lead to a trade war, warns Brussels

  

  The European Union has announced that it will respond with all measures at its disposal if the British government pushes ahead with unilateral changes to the Brexit deal on Northern Ireland. UK has said it wants to change the legally binding treaty that it signed less than two years ago.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  EU/UK reach post-Brexit deal on Northern Ireland; Johnson meets EC head in Brussels

  

  The European Union and UK have reached an unofficial agreement on post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland and its land border to the EU. The deal is not tied to last-gasp trade talks, but could help grease the wheels. The co-chairs of the EU-UK joint committee on Tuesday announced an “agreement in principle” pertaining in large part to the Irish border issue.