This may include adverts from us and 3 rd parties based on our understanding. The Protocol is part of the Brexit divorce deal, which aims at avoiding hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. Under the terms of the deal, Northern Ireland is effectively in the EU Single Market at the end of the transition period, meaning checks take place on goods arriving from mainland Britain.
The UK Government has said they could take what is seen as the British option of triggering Article 16 of the Protocol to effectively demolish parts of the deal if there is no movement on nuclear demands for the European Court of Justice to be removed from oversight in Northern Ireland. White House insiders said on Tuesday night that Mr Biden asked his staff for an update on the negotiations between both sides. A senior source added President Biden had asked a message to be relayed to Downing Street to say Ministers should not do anything that could jeopardize the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. The protocol protects the 1998 peace deal, agreed after The Troubles. Those calls echo a meeting the US President had with Prime Minister Boris Johnson last month where he stressed the importance of protecting the peace deal. DUP North-South says that protocol is 'cutting off one's nose to spite one's face' The DUP's boycott of cross-border meetings has been described by Stormont's Finance Minister as cutting one's nose to spite one's face Conor Murphy made the remark as he told MLAs that he had to bring a paper seeking approval for 1 bn of EU peace funding to an earlier meeting of the Norwegian Ministerial Council NMSC to ensure that some of the The DUP has pledged to disengage from the structures of the NSMC, apart from meetings on health issues, as part of its protest against Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol.