UK reveals plans to ditch parts of EU Brexit deal [View all]
Source: BBC
UK reveals plans to ditch parts of EU Brexit deal
13 June 2022
The UK government has published plans to get rid of parts of the post-Brexit deal it agreed with the EU in 2019.
It wants to change the Northern Ireland Protocol to make it easier for some goods to flow from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
But the EU opposes the move, saying that going back on the deal breaches international law.
The government said there is "no other way" of safeguarding essential interests of the UK.
It argues the term "necessity" is used in international law to justify situations where "the only way a state can safeguard an essential interest" is by disapplying - or breaking - another international obligation.
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