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Wednesday, 13 October 2021 (YJC)_ EU Brexit Commissioner has offered to scrap 80 percent of border checks to Solve Northern Ireland row.
EU Brexit Commissioner Maros Sefcovic has offered to scrap 80 percent of border checks on food that enters Northern Ireland from Britain. He outlined the proposal during a press conference on Wednesday.
According to the commissioner, the plan applies to goods for sale in Northern Ireland only. He believes that these and other steps would enhance "stability and predictability" in Northern Ireland.
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has called the proposal a "starting point", but stressed that the ideas "fall far short of the fundamental change needed". The DUP stated it would study the papers in detail.
It is understood that Brussels nonetheless braces for the worst amid signs UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be reluctant to accept the offer.
“Primarily, it’s a call for the UK to be realistiс. Focus on providing certainty, stability and predictability rather than focus on these high level constitutional issues. We think that renegotiating the protocol would create uncertainty. And hat’s the opposite of what we need … There’s a reason why negotiations on the protocol lasted for three and a half years. And we think we’ve reached the only workable solution”, the Guardian cited a Brussels official as saying.
The newspaper earlier reported that the bloc was ready prepared to abandon up to 50 percent of post-Brexit customs checks on British goods entering Northern Ireland as part of its “far-reaching” proposals for fixing the contentious Northern Ireland Protocol.
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