Lord Frost says the EU believes the easiest solution to NI Protocol food shipments issue is that "we shd operate the same laws, obviously that doesn’t work for us, that isn’t going to be the solution, that was the prob with the original backstop.
2/ "That doesn’t mean we can’t find agreements in arrangements in certain areas, eg equivalence, where no there's requirement to align but you accept you’re pursuing high standards. It shd mean fewer checks and processes, the EU have not wished to do so.
3/Frost says there is a broader question: the processes around the boundary between GB and NI are significant, have probably had a bigger chilling effect than we thought on GB businesses moving goods into NI, this is underlying the unrest and political developments.
4/ Frost says that Art 6 of the protocol is "not being fulfilled", ie obligation to limit the disruption on ordinary life in NI. Says: "There are no goods entering the single market that we’re aware of."
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