Re this EU-UK spat over wanting to put a 'technical office' in Belfast to oversea implementation of Irish Protocol...this has been a UK 'no-no' going right back to Feb 2018 when original draft of NI-only backstop was proposed. UK rejection was emphatic 1/
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…
Headline on that Feb 2018 article:
'Unworkable' Brussels' deal would put EU customs staff on British soil
The EU - per exchange between @RaoulRuparel @StefaanDeRynck - says its just 'technical' but they cannot be blind to the politics of this /2
'Unworkable' Brussels' deal would put EU customs staff on British soil
The EU - per exchange between @RaoulRuparel @StefaanDeRynck - says its just 'technical' but they cannot be blind to the politics of this /2
@RaoulRuparel @StefaanDeRynck The UK side, to be clear, has NOT helped itself by all these political threats not to implement the protocol - rather than trying to bring Cion/Member states on side to implement it 'sensitively' BUT.../3
@RaoulRuparel @StefaanDeRynck Hear genuine concern on UK side that if EU is too maximalist in pushing for 'joint controls' or 'joint patrols' (emotive word) then there is serious risk that this thing, as one source puts it, "could break". 4/ENDS
