EU VP @MarosSefcovic at @iiea says EU ready to offer ‘far-reaching, “creative” proposals to the #NIP.
They’ll be announced next week.
‘We’re approaching this in a good, constructive way’ but the recent rhetoric from @DavidGHFrost et al are “not helping”.
They’ll be announced next week.
‘We’re approaching this in a good, constructive way’ but the recent rhetoric from @DavidGHFrost et al are “not helping”.
But, he says any further softening carries a “political risk” because many member states are asking him whether the UK will simply ‘bank’ these derogations and continue its crusade against the protocol.
He says the discussion should be based on the opportunities the protocol brings to Northern Ireland. NI has “free access to the EU’s Single Market”… ‘
‘Just ask the Norwegians what that means - the biggest single market in the world’.
‘Just ask the Norwegians what that means - the biggest single market in the world’.
He says demands to remove oversight of @EUCourtPress are not something he hears from voices in Northern Ireland - ‘maybe 1pc care about the issue.’
“Nobody from business or civic society mentioned it” when he visited NI for 2 days, he says.
“Nobody from business or civic society mentioned it” when he visited NI for 2 days, he says.
He says ECJ was clearly agreed when negotiated the NIP with UK.
And warns: “to be I find it hard to see how NI would keep access to SM without oversight of ECJ.”
“Do we want to deprive the people of NI this tremendous opportunity, this huge advantage?”
And warns: “to be I find it hard to see how NI would keep access to SM without oversight of ECJ.”
“Do we want to deprive the people of NI this tremendous opportunity, this huge advantage?”
“Let’s think very very carefully what we are putting on the table and the price tag this might have for the businesses and people in Northern Ireland” he warns.
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