Brussels and UK at odds over proposed EU office in Belfast - Clashes expected over plan which Britain says would sow division in Northern Ireland

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"Brussels and UK officials will clash over the increasingly fraught question of whether the European Union can open an office in Belfast."

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"At the inaugural meeting on Thursday of a special committee of officials charged with enforcing a de facto Irish Sea border, the European commission is expected to press the case to open “a technical office” in Belfast, three days after the government rejected an EU “mini-embassy” in the Northern Irish capital.

The EU is refusing to drop the issue, amid fears Boris Johnson’s government could renege on the Brexit withdrawal agreement that requires Northern Ireland to follow EU single market and customs rules."

Brussels and UK at odds over proposed EU office in Belfast - Clashes expected over plan which Britain says would sow division in Northern Ireland (Guardian, link)

 

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