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Karen Bradley, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, gave badurances that the UK government will not give up the "support" pledge on the Irish border issue in the Brexit negotiations .
She declared that the government was fully committed to the agreement reached last December with the EU when Theresa May and the President of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, signed the "joint report" ending the first phase of negotiations on Brexit concerning EU citizens, the draft law on divorce and the Irish border. [19659002] "We are committed to all that we have agreed in the joint report and we will ensure that there is no border on the island of Ireland", she said Monday at the Anglo-Irish Parliamentary Assembly in London.
Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab has suggested to the EU and Britain to choose between extending the transition period to Brexit and a limited backstop in time to avoid a border too hard in Ireland.
It is imperative to ensure that there is no hard border in Ireland if a comprehensive free trade agreement can not be signed until the end of 2020. Theresa May proposed to EU that the whole of the UK remains in the customs union after Brexit. Brussels said it needed more time to evaluate the proposal.
As a result, the EU insists on having its own support – the backing of a backing – which would mean that Northern Ireland would remain in the single market and in the customs union in the absence of a free trade agreement, which would provoke strong objections from conservative Conservatives, the Brexiters the DUP, which supports his government.
This prompted May to propose a nationwide alternative in which the whole of the United Kingdom would remain in parts of the customs union after Brexit.
"The EU still needs a" backstop ", that is, an insurance policy for the insurance policy. And they want it to be the only solution proposed by Northern Ireland, "May told the MPs.
Noting the stakes, the prime minister said that the EU's insistence posed a threat to the UK's constitution: "We have made it clear that we can not accept anything that threatens the UK. The integrity of our United Kingdom, "she added.
Bradley A series of Irish politicians present at the meeting told the Irish people that she feared Brexit more and more and suggested over the weekend that the joint report of December was not relevant.
"I am very worried about the atmosphere that reigns in the last few days," said Frank Feighan, of the ruling party, Fine Gael. "Could we still trust the United Kingdom when it waived a written agreement?"
Ireland's ambbadador to the UK, Adrian O. Neill, said that the prospect of a Brexit was causing "real anxiety" in Northern Ireland and Irish Border Counties
He stated that limiting the safety time to the bottom would make it redundant. "Neither in the texts of December nor March, there are references to backstops of limited duration. Since the backstop is designed to work in all circumstances, the prescribed time would be more against the stated purpose. "
Brexiters representatives suggested that Irish support was exaggerated or used as a weapon by the EU during negotiations.
Former conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith last week described the absurd stalemate on the safety net and urged the Prime Minister to tell the EU to "stop to pose as ridiculous problems as the safety net "in order to prevent the conclusion of an agreement.
Helen Ireland's Minister of European Affairs, McEntee, told the Irish Times that if London renegotiated, existing agreements on citizens' rights and the so-called divorce bill could be reopened.
the negotiation that you can go back and cancel a decision that was agreed on both sides and sets a new red line against a decision already negotiated. I think no one can or should be able to do that, "she said.
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