It's frustrating, that so much analysis flying around of Commission proposals on NI Protocol is dented by selective memory and / or damaging pretence of false balance (for fear of usual Brexitist attacks on "biased experts"). I suffer from neither. So let's be crystal clear:
Start from the premiss that there is no backstory here, that all claims are equal and everything is possible: yeah, maybe the Commission offer doesn't sound so generous. Why didn't they offer all this years ago? Why don't they go a bit further to meet UK demands?
But since entire mess was caused by HMG's Hard Brexit + callous disregard for NI's wellbeing, that EU & UK already reached agreement, in which EU made major concessions compared to normal system for 3rd countries, while UK has consistently breached own duties = different picture.
Commission proposals reflect what EU often does so well: find dispassionate solutions to actual problems; here, giving real priority to NI's wellbeing. Whereas HMG continues to whip up hysteria over manufactured grievances; using NI as pawn in ulterior populist, rightist agenda.
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