‘I’m pleased to report that we have now made a decisive breakthrough ’ Sunak said in a joint news conference on 27 February with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
The UK government published a command paper titled The Windsor Framework: a new way forward (bit.ly/windsorframework). Supporting documents included a political declaration a note of the government’s legal position and a link to legal texts published by the European Commission (bit.ly/EClegaltexts).
The command paper notes that ‘the old protocol’ has been ‘the source of acute political economic and societal difficulties’ since it took effect in 2021 and has already led to ‘significant disruption’ in the links between Great Britain and Northern Ireland (NI). In particular ‘the flow and availability of goods from Great Britain to NI has been disrupted due to the...
