Business leaders in Northern Ireland have expressed concerns over the continuing political uncertainty following Thursday’s local elections and have called for the reestablishment of a fully functioning government for the region. Northern Ireland has not had a functioning local government since February, when the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), then the largest party in the regional…
Norther Ireland Business Community Voices Concerns Over Political Uncertainty
Northern Ireland Business Community Voices Concerns Over Political Uncertainty
Business leaders in Northern Ireland have expressed concerns over the continuing political uncertainty following Thursday’s local elections and have called for the reestablishment of a fully functioning government for the region. Northern Ireland has not had a functioning local government since February, when the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), then the largest party in the regional…
Sinn Fein Becomes Biggest Party in Northern Ireland Assembly
Sinn Fein, an Irish nationalist political party which has links to the Irish Republican Army (IRA), has won a historic victory by becoming the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly for the first time. In last week’s UK local elections, Sinn Fein won 27 of the 90 seats in the Stormont assembly, beating the…
Judge Suspends Northern Ireland Minister’s Order to End Sea Border Checks
A High Court judge in Northern Ireland has suspended an order from a unionist minister to end port checks required under the UK–EU agreement on post-Brexit trade. Northern Ireland’s Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots, a member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), issued a unilateral direction on Feb. 2, instructing his officials to stop the agri-food…
UK Foreign Secretary Threatens to Override Brexit Pact Over Northern Ireland
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has warned the European Union that she is prepared to unilaterally override parts of the post-Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland if the negotiations fail. Truss was handed responsibility for the negotiations after Lord Frost resigned as Brexit minister last month. She will hold her first face-to-face talks with her EU…
UK Foreign Secretary Takes Over Brexit Negotiations After Frost’s Resignation
The UK’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has picked up another major portfolio as the new Brexit minister, months after she took over the Foreign Office. Truss was given the new job after former Brexit Minister David Frost resigned on Sunday evening, citing disagreements with the government’s stance on lockdown restrictions, taxation, and regulation. “She will become…
Bus Hijacked and Set on Fire as Tensions Rise in Northern Ireland
A bus has been hijacked and set on fire at a loyalist estate on the outskirts of Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland. Four masked men boarded the double decker in Church Road at an entrance to the Rathcoole estate in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, at about 7.45 p.m. and ordered the driver and passengers off….
EU Unveils Proposals to Slash Brexit Checks Required Under the Northern Ireland Protocol
The European Union has unveiled a series of proposals that would slash the red tape burden on Irish Sea trade created by Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol. The European Commission measures would see an 80 percent reduction in checks envisaged for retail agri-food products arriving in the region from Great Britain. The proposed changes to the…
UK ‘Not Likely’ to Trigger Brexit Safeguard Measures: Irish Foreign Minister
Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney said on Wednesday that he doesn’t believe the UK will trigger the safeguard measure in the Northern Ireland Protocol any time soon. Coveney’s comment came after the UK’s Brexit Minister David Frost hinted that he could trigger the Article 16 safeguard mechanism if the UK and the EU can’t agree on a solution…
Britain Again Warns EU: We Will Trigger Brexit Safeguard Measures
MANCHESTER, England—Britain warned the European Union on Monday it would trigger safeguard measures in their divorce deal if the bloc failed to agree to changes to smooth trade with Northern Ireland, saying the agreement had “come apart even more quickly than we feared.” Brexit minister David Frost told the ruling Conservative Party’s conference he would…
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