: Brexit Is Still a Hot Mess #WorldNEWS From the pandemic to President Joseph Biden’s election, the January 6 insurrection, and the vaccine rollout, a lot has changed in the last 18 months. One

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Brexit Is Still a Hot Mess #WorldNEWS
From the pandemic to President Joseph Biden’s election, the January 6 insurrection, and the vaccine rollout, a lot has changed in the last 18 months.
One thing that hasn’t? Brexit, Britains exit from the European Union, is still a hot mess.
The latest chapter in the saga has the British government threatening to go “nuclear” and invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol—not good for already tense U. K. -E. U. relations.
The Northern Ireland Protocol was designed to ensure the free flow of trade between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and the rest of the E. U. The status of the land border between Northern Ireland (a part of the U. K. ) and the Republic of Ireland (a part of the E. U. ) was one of the key stumbling blocks to a withdrawal agreement between the E. U. and the U. K. In order to keep the north-south border open—essential to preserving the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the peace accord that ended three decades of sectarian conflict—while preserving the integrity of the E. U. ’s single market, the Protocol stipulated a customs and regulatory border down the Irish Sea, with any disputes to be settled by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
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The legal, political, and economic repercussions of triggering Article 16 would be dire.
How did we get here?
Tensions between the E. U. and the U. K. increased following the latter’s publication of a “command paper” in July, asking the E. U. to rewrite the Northern Ireland Protocol and threatening to invoke Article 16 if Brussels refused.
Britain’s Brexit minister David Frost justified the move by citing the “diversion of trade” and economic and societal pressures caused by the E. U. ’s implementation of customs and agri-food checks on goods moving across the Irish Sea. These checks have disrupted trade between Britain and Northern Ireland and caused major shortages in Northern Ireland. Frost’s demands included applying both U. K. and E. U. standards in Northern Ireland and rejecting Brussels’s demand for the U. K. to adhere to E. U. agri-food rules. The U. K. also demanded an end to the EJC’s role in policing the Protocol in Northern Ireland.
At that point it was clear that while Brussels was open to discussing implementation of the Protocol, it would not renegotiate it, thereby closing the door to any fundamental compromise over the role of the ECJ.
After a lengthy stalemate, on October 13 the E. U. formally responded to the U. K. ’s demands with a proposal that went further than the U. K. government expected, easing 80% of border checks and doing away with half of the paperwork requirements.

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