EU official on NI Protocol: "We’re happy to look for solutions but they must be found within the framework of the protocol and EU law. Some of the solutions will be limited by the kind of Brexit the UK has chosen and decision to have a more distant relationship with the EU"
2/ Official says €120m of EU money agreed for the future PEACE+ programme, along with €86m from Dublin and €500m
"The protocol has the potential to be enormously beneficial for the people of NI, with access to the single market and the UK market"
"The protocol has the potential to be enormously beneficial for the people of NI, with access to the single market and the UK market"
3/ Official says there is an "Improved atmosphere between the EU + UK" in discussions on the protocol, both sides are working intensively at technical "on the basis that we want to create a joint text to be discussed at poliitcal level at the Joint Committee"
4/ Official says there is "a very big incentive" for the UK to remain aligned with extremely high standards of sps in the EU. "If they remained aligned then many of the problems [of the Protocol] wd go away."
5/ Official says the EU has found flexibility on animal and plant health, guide dogs, and there are many where EU legislation does allow for certain flexiblities, Where there is, we’ve been willing to stretch legislation as much as necessary to find solutions
6/ But as long as the UK makes "a structural choice to be more distant" that means while we can find flex for some problems we won’t be able to solve them all
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