In an opinion piece published in the British newspaper Daily Telegraph on Saturday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson found a new argument to defend his intention to partially reverse the Brexit deal.
He argued that he was forced to do so in the face of the "threat" that the European Union (EU) establishes a "blockade" in Northern Ireland through an "extreme interpretation" of the text, preventing food products from the United Kingdom. United to enter.
"I have to say that we never seriously believed that the EU would be able to use a treaty, negotiated in good faith, to blockade part of the UK or that they would actually threaten to destroy it. economic and territorial integrity of the UK, "he wrote.
But according to the Irish Minister of Justice, the argument is fallacious.
"It's just not the case," Helen McEntee replied on Sky News, as discussions around a post-Brexit deal escalated this week, "any hint that this will create a new frontier is quite simply false ".
Helen McEntee recalled that the provisions relating to Northern Ireland in the treaty which codifies the UK's withdrawal from the EU have been accepted by both parties in order to ensure fair competition after Brexit.
They also want to avoid the return of a physical border to the island, bloodied by three decades of "Troubles" until the signing of the Good Friday peace agreement in 1998.
The treaty "also guarantees the integrity of Northern Ireland as an integral part of the United Kingdom", said the Irish minister, it "guarantees that we will not see any border reappearing".
With AFP
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