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The British government demanded
"major changes"
in the protocol of customs provisions in Northern Ireland after Brexit, days before the European Union (EU) responds to a proposal from London on the thorny issue.
Britain's Brexit Secretary of State
David Frost
is scheduled to deliver a speech in Lisbon on Tuesday in which he will urge the EU to show "ambition and will" on this issue, according to a statement broadcast by Downing Street on Saturday night.
This protocol was conceived to
prevent a return from the border on the island of Ireland
that would put the fragile peace at risk, but it entailed the introduction of controls on goods arriving in Northern Ireland (UK region) with the island of Gran Brittany.
Irish Unionists and British Conservatives claim that this system causes
supply problems
and has created a maritime border within the UK.
Outrage over this protocol fueled the
violent clashes
that occurred in spring in Northern Ireland and fed the specter of three decades of conflict in the province, where 3,500 people died until the 1998 peace accords.
The government of
Boris Johnson
has demanded from Brussels a deep renegotiation of this device and the EU is expected to offer its response to the British proposals this Wednesday.
Frost "will commit to examine carefully" and "as positively as possible" this response, as well as to initiate "intensive negotiations very soon".
However, the Brexit secretary warned that
they will not accept "endless negotiations"
and that, in that case, they will not hesitate to suspend the Northern Irish protocol by activating an article that allows them to disregard some clauses of the agreement in case of "serious economic and social difficulties or environmental ".
The British press claims that the European Union is preparing a proposal to end the so-called "sausage war" that provides exemptions to be able to continue sending chilled meat from Great Britain to Northern Ireland for products linked to "national identity".
In its statement, Downing Street warns that any solution "must go beyond the sausage issue."
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