Above from left: UK Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove and European Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič this afternoon
🇪🇺🇬🇧 Pleased to announce that thanks to hard work, @michaelgove and I have reached an agreement in principle on all issues re the #WithdrawalAgreement implementation. This will ensure it is fully operational as of 1 Jan, incl. the Protocol on Ireland/NI 👉 https://t.co/RaWNEVbxrt pic.twitter.com/1OCjapNd3F
— Maroš Šefčovič🇪🇺 (@MarosSefcovic) December 8, 2020
This afternoon.
Via RTÉ:
As a result of the agreement the UK will withdraw the clauses in the Internal Market Bill which would have breached the Northern Ireland Protocol, and “will not introduce any similar provisions in the Taxation Bill,” the statement said.
Following intensive discussions through the EU UK Joint Committee, which implements the Withdrawal Agreement, solutions in principle have been found on the question of food imports from Great Britain to Northern Ireland supermarkets, the issue of EU state aid rules, the supply of medicines to Northern Ireland and the question of the EU’s presence in the North.
The Joint Committee, co-chaired by Mr Gove and Mr Šefčovič, have also reached agreement principle on the question of which goods of GB origin would be at risk of crossing the border to the south and thereby potentially attract a tariff.
Agreement has also been reached on the exemption of agricultural and fish subsidies from state aid rules, as well as a list of members on an arbitration panel which will mediate on disputes relating to the Withdrawal Agreement…
UK and EU reach agreement over Northern Ireland trade (RTÉ)
Please explain this to me Chargers, in your own inimitable way.
I can’t make any sense of it.
It’s brexit, it cannot be explained.
Oh wait, I get it now…
The UK was told what they had to do and they ended up having to do it!
(That wouldn’t be allowed to happen if they were members of the EU, would it?)
Hang on a minute…
It still doesn’t make any sense.
Help me Charger.
Please help me!
I’m clutching at straws.
You can relate, surely?
double week on the scratch. he’s treating himself to a pastie from centra to go with the four pack of linden village, then a quick tug over nicola sturgeon and he’s good to go for the rest of the day.
so they’ve dropped this Internal Market Bill bluff hand…that we all already knew was a bluff hand? ok grand.
“…..have also reached agreement principle on the question of which goods of GB origin would be at risk of crossing the border to the south and thereby potentially attract a tariff”
hm. well I very much look forward to seeing just how they’re gonna tackle me when I visit my tyre guy up in Mallusk next January for a fresh set of Michelin Pilot Sport’s which are near half the cash price I’d pay here if I went to any of the local ripoff merchants, Keet Duffy included
For the small stuff they’ll turn a blind eye. Impossible to police and they’ll hardly be stopping cars at the border. Different story for consignments of goods, moving animals, milk etc. IRL car industry will be delira too. Days of GB/NI car imports no longer a threat as it won’t be cost effective anymore – it no longer is for diesels. I’ll still be using my other half’s NI address for my UK online shopping. Lol.
Will you be doing A levels or repeating the Leaving?
Lol. I can’t help it if I made you rage. CV still blank? Why you so obsessed with me? ;-)
My interest is anthropological. I rarely see Unionists post openly on here so Im trying to learn their ways. Before we let you into our Republic, we have to understand why you hate us.
Rage against the Bitnboxy. Erm, is your username “Toby” meant to be ironic? Very unionist. Glorious!
Back off desperado!
As a friend (gone rogue) who beacons from a staunch unionist family explain to me: ‘what you fail to understand Cú, is that every unionist, ever single last one, wants more than anything else in this world or the next, is to see every last catholic dead. They would do absolutely anything to make that happen. You want a rapprochement, a coming together and a peaceful future. But they just want you dead. Simple’.
Finally a bit of positive news given the Brexit sheet-show. Hopefully this bodes well for the FTA, however bare bones it will be.
‘The undefined being negotiated by the unprepared in order to get the unspecified for the uninformed’.
nice one from the irish times, in fairness.
Basically a summation of the Brexit the UK public will be sold.
You can tell which of them is beaming behind his mask and which is trying to forget he promised to resign if this happened.
@ Charger Salmons:
Stop talking about Brexit in terms of “how it’s going to work”.
It isn’t going to work, old chap!
It would set a precedent if we let your side away with it, you cheeky blighters!
And we can’t have that.
He’s only going to comment on cat pictures and hot wheels from now on, still a racist bigot, just on other threads.
Heh heh heh.
It could be the beginning of civilization as we never knew it.
Imagine having the initials B J.
In Eton.
I know why his hair is white!
Look out for my new book.
All well and good……until 2nd January when Boris reneges on whatever he’s promised. He’s one dude that can’t be trusted.