Le Monte – New agreement on Northern Ireland: UK and EU are banking on new peaceful relations
Le Monte says It was a pivotal day for Northern Ireland and UK-European Union (EU) relations, enshrined under the unusual auspices of British royalty. Monday, February 27, from the town hall of Windsor (in Berkshire), a stone’s throw from the venerable royal castle, the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, while smiling and visibly complicit, announced the “Windsor framework”, a very substantial revision of the Northern Irish protocol.
Negotiated by Boris Johnson at the end of 2019, the protocol was a crucial part of the Brexit treaty governing the special fate of Northern Ireland, but was rejected by unionists in the province (loyal to belonging to the United Kingdom) , who saw it as an attack on their British identity because it established a customs border in the Irish Sea. This text had polluted relations between London and Brussels for three years.
