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Elena Adaal

@ElenaAdaal

2 years

@lewis_goodall Positive and the right thing to do. Little gem in his speech: "...the very people who created the Protocol,.., came to this island and acted – to be blunt – in bad faith."

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@CeeMacBee The import tax is not tariffs, but the border formalities, customs forms, and truck drivers standing in line to cross at Dover.

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@Mij_Europe @BorisJohnson @DavidGHFrost "The EU did not want Brexit to succeed". This is folly. It is not up to the EU to make Brexit a success or not. Brexit is a UK thing, and UK is solely responsible for that. EU will mind its own interests, and likewise does not expect UK to contribute to that.

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@tconnellyRTE This is a very sensible approach by the EU, since: - UK wants to use bilateral deals as a way to undermine EU and divide EU MS - EU as a block is in a much stronger position to get better deals than the individual Member States. - It shows Switz./No/Tr that alignment has value.

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@tconnellyRTE If it is this bad, the response should not be low-key. The TCA should be ended, but on top of that additional trade-war measures should be taken, such as reducing flights, boycots on non-basic foods, ending services cooperation, etc.

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4 years

@pernilleru Full compensation will not be possible. A permanent subsidy of 10% on every car to compensate for tariffs is also likely illegal. More realistic is that the UK car industry aimed at the EU will be unsustainable, and just pack up and leave.

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@hhesterm The Mail may win in UK, but in EU it has no leverage. We in EU will set up and implement this system of admission. This is what we have decided, and we have the sovereign right to do this. All efforts to twart this should be seen as efforts by hostiles to undermine the EU.

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1 year

@RaveCozensHardy Excellent that falsehoods like this are exposed. Its also remarkable to observe there are people ready to twist the truth to keep holding on to expensive, outdated technology that uses a large, continuous supply of feedstock often sourced from dictators.

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@ElenaAdaal

3 years

@Mij_Europe @BorisJohnson @DavidGHFrost This thread is not complete without reference to the enduring hostility of UK towards EU. The EU should be very much aware that the UK wants to damage and diminish EU, and should actively work to counter that.

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@ElenaAdaal

4 years

@pmdfoster To me its baffling that UK has not grasped that the UK-EU relation is now transactional: If the UK wants something, it needs to offer something in return. Otherwise its a simple no.

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2 years

@StevePeers @hayward_katy Thank you for your dissection. Yes, "intellectually dishonest", but also the words of a lightweight: Frost strutted around for a year, as UK 'negotiator', firmly establishing UK as unreliable, and now wants a do-over on essentially the same flawed grounds.

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3 years

@tconnellyRTE @vonderleyen Predictability and clarity from EU. The protocol stays. UK gov. and others involved should now work towards the full implementation of the Protocol. Any 'debate' on unicorn solutions is over. There are no alternatives to the Protocol.

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3 years

@DavidHenigUK I note that these US Congress politicians call upon the the UK to "...commit to implementing the Northern Ireland Protocol in full". This is stronger than "respect the GFA", or "work with EU/Ireland".

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@DmitryOpines People will only believe it when there are actually 8500 trucks stuck at the border. I bet that even now there are many Tory politicians that will deny that anything bad will happen.

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3 years

@LLBruce These people are not immigrants, but refugees. If these kinds of demands are placed on refugees from Ukraine, this means in fact that that UK is turning away refugees. UK should ask itself what country it wants to be.

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3 years

@M_AndersonSF This is exactly what Sevcovic (current EU point person) said: the Protocol was negotiated ’over several years’, ‘line by line’. Frost cannot disown it. It must be implemented in full.

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2 years

@tconnellyRTE Its such nonsense. A ‘dual regulatory regime’, where ‘robust in-market surveillance’ would mean no Sea border checks. Come on…UK cannot even control their own border with the EU and now there will be a system in place that is so good border checks are not needed….

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2 years

@GergelyOrosz Any Dutch judge will make minced meat out of this: no proper communication, no social plan, no grounds dismissal, and chaotic execution. An employment contract is first of all a contract. It bind both sides, and making changes unilaterally is not allowed.

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@hilarybennmp @pmdfoster Up until this moment UK has not implemented the Protocol, and has dragged its feet. To say that EU now needs to go further is not recognising where the problems are. It only leads to UK being even more difficult.

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Elena Adaal

@ElenaAdaal

10 months

@jdportes You might want revise this graph, especially the trendline. This does not reflect well your academic record.

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10 months

That is the most comedy "trend" line ever

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2 years

@Peston @anandMenon1 You assume UK gov is trustworthy. They may be citing protection of the GFA as a reason to ditch the Protocol, but it is just air. There is zero truth UK wants to ditch all international agreements, including the ECHR - to let Rwanda flights happen - and obviously the GFA as well

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@ElenaAdaal

4 years

@danielmgmoylan The way NI has been treated by rUK can be characterized by distant, aloof, and uncaring. It was known for years that this would happen, and still the WA was supported in HoC and HoL. NI should embrace Ireland and unite. There is nothing left on other side of the Irish Sea.

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1 year

@AlexTaylorNews @ukhomeoffice @FT Its the political leadership which requires this. The problems with UK runs much deeper than just some rogue civil servants. At the heart of this is an unwillingness of UK to respect, or even acknowledge others. The UK you grew up in is no more.

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2 years

@DavidHenigUK The logic is strange: how could Brexit be ruined by others when the Brexiters were in charge for the full six years after Brexit, during which UK - and they - became steadily more extreme. What is their answer: even more extremism?

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@ElenaAdaal

10 months

@jdportes Why can’t you just post the correlation coefficients?

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@ElenaAdaal

3 years

@DarranMarshall @KeohaneDan @DavidGHFrost This is clear nonsense and Frost knows that. Specifically: - EU has always been against equivalence. - Trusted trader schemes are fine, but they are always very limited and under "parliamentary duress"????? Is that really the excuse of a democratic state?

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@ElenaAdaal

1 year

@andrewhesselden Brexit cannot be made to work. That day you look forward to is the day UK has rejoined EU.

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@ElenaAdaal

4 years

@pmdfoster Past 4 years have learned that the UK government listens to no one (remainers, Labour, the EU, the farmers, business, etc.). So no way they will listen to Scotland. What should Scotland do? Simply leave. Ireland knows what it is to be always ignored. They are happy now.

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3 years

@swgannon @RuthDE @Telegraph (paraphrasing) "The narrative that a leader of a country is actually responsible for what happens in that country hinders solutions....." Lol; down the rabbit hole.

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2 years

@tconnellyRTE Better if UK is barred from Horizon Europe. The programme is about boosting the EU’s competitiveness and growth. Its clear that UK has no place in it Also strange that UK ended Freedom of Movement with EU and then wants science cooperation and the mobility that comes with that

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3 years

@BEERG They have no idea. Barnier was especially good at keeping EU MS united, but otherwise not particularly radical. MS and others would have been more strict with UK. No new EU leaders will to hand UK 'cake-and-eat-it' privileges. What UK wants was - and is - absurd.

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@ElenaAdaal

3 years

@danielmgmoylan @pmdfoster The Lugano convention is governed - not formally, but practically - by the ECJ. Unsure why UK wants to be part of that.

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@ElenaAdaal

3 years

@BEERG One of many examples of the hostility of the Brexiters towards the EU and all EU citizens. Sure there are many equally 'strange' people in EU countries, but in UK they form the government; that's the danger. What is needed: Never trust them, never give in on anything.

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3 years

@Mij_Europe I expect that this is needed since UK is trying to play EU MS against each other, and because UK discriminate between Member States, for example by asking higher fees for work visa for EU citizens in Eastern Europe. Obviously this is wholly unacceptable.

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2 years

@paddy_de @tconnellyRTE @rtenews No. Its increasingly clear that the UK is only looking for confrontation for internal political purposes. It is important for EU not only to not yield one inch, but to go on the offensive to discourage the UK destructive behavior in the future.

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Elena Adaal

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8 months

Based on a few amusing exchanges on the “not for EU” label – and the recent Politico article - I decided to write a thread on the question: “does the ‘not for EU’ label mean its an inferior product” TL:DR: Likely yes. Hear me out (1/x)

Brits left baffled by Brexit’s ‘not for EU’ food labels

Post-Brexit rules requiring foods to carry ‘not for EU’ labels spark confusion — and, in some cases, outright disgust — from UK shoppers.

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3 years

@HarryYorke1 @JamesCrisp6 Until the NI Protocol is sorted, either through full implementation or alignment, all other interactions are slow-walked by EU. UK behaviour should dramatically improve to stem the tide. EU is increasingly fed up.

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1 year

@journoontheedge @JP_Biz This is good news. Cash demanded in parliament 45 years of EU contributions back. He thus was part of the Tory cabal that stoked hostility and resentment towards EU and Europeans. All righteous people should feel contempt for him.

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2 years

@DmitryOpines Surgical. As to your point 8) (Ukraine should stay 'neutral') its worth recalling that Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for security guarantees from i.a. Russia. So it would be very unwise for Ukraine to weaken itself in exchange for 'guarantees' worth nothing

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@rfhaviland @sjwrenlewis When UK gov talks about the Rwanda scheme and the legal aspects I hear the following: ”We will not help refugees, because we do not care if they live or die”

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2 years

@BobbyMcDonagh1 @lisaocarroll @SteveBakerHW @BrigidLaffan It is simply not enough. If UK really regrets this, they would remedy this by implementing the Protocol. Otherwise it is just empty air.

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@ElenaAdaal

4 years

@DavidHenigUK "Chaos at Dover: 10,000 angry lorry drivers clash with police and demand to be let across the Channel" I have a free tip for all the UK truck drivers in Dover: Turn around, drive to London and demand change there.

Lorry drivers WILL be able to travel to France from tomorrow morning

A deal has finally been struck with France after a ban on arrivals from the UK was imposed by President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, which has since seen thousands of trucks stranded in Kent.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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3 years

@tconnellyRTE I doubt they were that gullible. My theory is that they knew full well that they could not overturn it by normal means. The just did not care about NI

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3 years

@adampayne26 @tconnellyRTE I would suggest that the EU takes the UK trashing a Treaty very seriously, but not in the way Frost thinks. Nobody wants to do business with a banana republic that takes its own treaties not seriously.

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4 years

@LOS_Fisher ERG voted for the WA. It would be great if UK contained principled politicians that stand behind what they agreed to. This ERG lot has put a dagger in the back of unionism, and will do so again. They are just flies to be swatted away.

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Elena Adaal

@ElenaAdaal

4 years

@pmdfoster All working as intended. This was negotiated and agreed. No need for action.

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@ElenaAdaal

3 years

@DavidHenigUK one of the reasons why this can go on for so long is the problematic state of democracy in the UK. A one-party-to-rule-them-all, with no say by any others, and complicit media, means that denials of reality can go on and on.

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@ElenaAdaal

3 years

@lisaocarroll Strange that the DUP do not complain that they were betrayed and abandoned by the UK Tories as soon as there was an opportunity.

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@ElenaAdaal

2 years

@Mij_Europe @EmmanuelMacron Very good that Macron is honest: the Russian war of agression against Ukraine is also our war. Every day Russia makes clear that the rest of Europe is next if he wins. What that means is clear since Bucha. Full-on support for Ukraine means sacrifices at home.

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Elena Adaal

@ElenaAdaal

7 months

Very good that Euro clearing is being reshored to EU. This is important for EU Open Strategic Autonomy, reduces risks, and will in time increase jobs and growth in EU.

Richard Corbett

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Blow to Britain as Brussels forces City traders to funnel euro deals through EU (as predicted but repeatedly denied by Brexit brigade):

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@DavidHenigUK The EU is being too reasonable to UK, which results in UK persisting in silliness. When that leads to things like disinviting Patel, there is the "oh, EU is sooooo unreasonable". When UK ignores all gentle nudges, the sledgehammer comes out.

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Elena Adaal

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3 years

@NIHargrave Agree with you. UK is not a functioning democracy, since the PM has practically all the power, and nobody has any say. There are no 'brakes' in the system, and it can get worse and worse without anything breaking the slide.

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3 years

@Mij_Europe It seems risky to offer so much concessions while its already clear it will not be enough. Far better to confront this issue head on, and take increasingly severe measures until this is solved.

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3 years

@BBCkatyaadler ...Frost was the embodiment of this insincerity by his seemingly high-minded (Burke) speeches, that simply meant that UK wanted to wriggle out of deals it proposed. Frost did not accomplish anything, and has damaged UK reputation considerably.

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3 years

@jonsnowC4 Why would the creative industry be more entitled than non-creatives? Freedom of Movement is a wonderful thing, precisely because it applies to all, regardless of profession or social standing. UK opted not to have that, and it should be all or none.

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2 years

@lisaocarroll The argument of Jones is essentially: "We don't like the Protocol, and so we can tear it up because we are untrustworthy" It would be very good for the standing of UK if Jones and their ilk would loose all their positions. How is any deal possible with untrustworty people

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3 years

@tconnellyRTE @rtenews Thank you very much Tony for the hugely insightfull and detailed report. You put the J in Journalism. There should be a prize for doing what you do and I would nominate you in an instant.

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@ElenaAdaal

3 years

@maxbergmann Sure, but US stands shoulder-to-shoulder - which is highly appreciated; as long as it will last.

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@ElenaAdaal

2 years

@Mij_Europe Culture wars are not cheap.

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3 years

@DavidHenigUK I see long threads are being written about EU should not ask UK to align. To be chrystal clear: EU does not ask UK to alingn on anything. Just implement the Protocol. There are no problems with the Protocol, only with Brexit. It can be implemented fully.

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@ElenaAdaal

2 years

@PaoloSandro2 @chrisgreybrexit @DavidGauke Thank you for the good explanation. To me it is feels logical that treaties cannot be changed unilaterally: if that would be possible, there would not be treaties. They would not exist, because they would bind no one.

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2 years

@hhesterm Thank you for this interesting thread. Its clear that UK leaving the ECHR goes against the GFA. However, given that UK does not seem to want to adhere to international treaties, its not academic to ask what would happen if the UK presses on with leaving the ECHR?

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@ElenaAdaal

2 years

@Simon_Nixon Austerity since 2010 and Brexit. It would be good for UK to remove all Tories from all elected positions, in all levels of elected government.

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@ElenaAdaal

3 years

@DavidHenigUK I would not call it fury. It is the realisation that ‘normal’ negotiations do not work with UK, and that UK does not want to keep to agreements it signed. Its only logical to end the TCA: the WA and the TCA were a package. That - obviously - still holds.

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4 years

@tconnellyRTE @rtenews This looks DOA (dead on arrival). Nothing UK has done suggests something different then a steady decline in relations. Existing agreements are not met, and any opening is seen as weakens.. EU should hold on defences, and act on offensives, such as finance, agriculture.

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2 years

@AntonSpisak Thank you for this. I should add, that these 'revisions of history' are quite a common instrument of UK gov. This means that all others - including EU - should be extra vigilant regarding any and all utterances by UK gov. They cannot be trusted. (1/2)

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3 years

@christopherhope There are no EU inspectors at the border. The EU has an office in Belfast to oversee the UK inspections at the Sea border. Tensions are only rising because UK gov., media and a unionist minority are stirring the pot.

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@ElenaAdaal

2 years

@jnpowell1 Thank you for the clear thread and for pointing out the actual danger that the new UK bill is to the peace process

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@ElenaAdaal

2 years

@AmandaFBelfast What do we miss in this statement: - Acknowledgement that EU is willing to discuss Protocol implementation, but UK is not. - The UK could align more with EU to make the Sea border less problematic. We see no movement at all on this.

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3 years

@gallardo_ortega This is just a request so the answers to Frost can be: "Thank you for your letter but we do not consider it appropriate to inform you", and "we note you expectation regarding our support for your positions, just as you note our view on e.g. the IM bill".

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1 year

@anandMenon1 Market-only membership was impossible, and it still is. there is no "EU Plan" for this. Its a study report from a study group. Because there is no serious pushback against fantasists like Hannan they can keep on pushing nonsense like this

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4 years

@AlexRossPhoto @DmitryOpines EU and UK agreed a Political Declaration, in which all things now on the table - like LPF - were agreed. UK wants to change that now. UK is unreliable, and wants all advantages of the Single Market without obligations. You deserve everything that is coming to you.

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@ElenaAdaal

2 years

@SFischer_EU There is no realistic solution, if all UK wants is conflict with EU. EU should be aware, and take actions - not words - that disadvantage Tories electorally. When UK (in)action has no consequences, it will never stop.

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3 years

@hhesterm My issue with this is not so much the point-scoring, but the ignorance on what has happened in Germany combined with the immediate - unfounded - sowing of doubts on the German motives. It’s disrespectful And: give none, get none.

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3 years

@NashSGC .. and can inflict a lot of pain, but this is irrelevant in the UK contect. UK gov does not answer to democratic signals, so it can do what it wants. What then? First its good to recognise the upside for the EU. UK Brexit shows the benefits of membership, and..

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2 years

@Mij_Europe @iainmartin1 This 'partial fixes' idea looks very much like the the old 'mini-deals' idea of Brexiters. Basically it means that UK cherry-picks what it likes from EU. Its not even that this cannot work pe se, but the crux is that EU will also want its cherries, and UK does not want that.

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Interesting for the history books: 4 years ago the UK Johnson gov. proposed to separate Ireland from the EU to satisfy the UK wish to replace the ‘backstop’. In hindsight all those on the EU side should get a medal for self-restraint.

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Four years ago today the Johnson government set out its proposals to replace the ‘backstop’ Protocol. Proposed text was forwarded to the European Commission… but alas has never been published. And FOI request rejected.

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@gallardo_ortega @chrisgreybrexit This is fine. It means that the bar for any new deal is cross-community consent. It is of course completely unacceptable to let only unionists have a veto in NI.

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@JP_Biz Frost and now Truss have been known to complain that the Sea border costs 0.6 billion Euro, while EU now complains that there are "not sufficient resources" It would be wonderfull if some journalists could look at what is really happening. We are groping in the dark.

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2 years

@RepBrendanBoyle Thank you for your steadfast support for NI, Ireland and the EU position.

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2 years

@pmdfoster Everywhere you look there are links between Brexit, Trump and Putin.

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3 years

@tconnellyRTE @ThomasByrneTD Very positive signs that these new transport links are working. It is now good that Ireland + EU work on direct energy links, combined with own renewable energy generation in Irland, so that it will be possible to reduce energy supplies to UK without cutting of Ireland as well.

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@DavidHenigUK At some point UK should accept that it has left EU. This means accepting its own responsibilities, which include border checks. Every country can do this. EU did it on day 1. UK looks unserious.

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@NashSGC Thank you for the great threat, and this all sounds quite plausible. Question is, what should the EU do? Firstly, its good to realise that nothing will ever be enough with the current Tory gov., so the EU should not give in on any point. Secondly, the EU will..

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@tconnellyRTE @chrisgreybrexit @rtenews Wonderfully detailed as always. Highlight for me: Medicines seem to have been solved, but are held up by UK - solely - because of politics. Let that sink in: UK is blocking a medicines solution in NI because of politics.

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@LizWebsterSBF This Sumption person is not arguing for UK to be part of EU. He just wants UK to be able to keep Europe divided. If this is the main view, UK does not belong in EU.

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@rolandmcs @KeohaneDan So funny that the biggest advantage of Brexit is apparently 'accountability', while the current UK gov rather denies reality than takes responsibility, and gets away with it.

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3 years

@mrhorsdusujet @DavidHenigUK Brexiters always, always, always blame someone else.

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@nialloconghaile Note the headline: As always UK media tried to put European politicians in a bad light. Merkel did not ridicule May's demands; she noted that May did not have any proposal. All May could say was: 'make me an offer' - as if EU had to do Brexit for them.

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3 years

@BrandonLewis The UK gov also signed the Protocol not long ago, and is now seeking changes to it. Why should anyone believe you this time?

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3 years

@DavidHenigUK The most remarkable thing is that US without a doubt knows that UK would roll over and give US all it wanted in a trade deal. It would easily have been a complete win for US business. The fact that US choose differently is a win for the transatlantic (EU-US) relation.

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@ElenaAdaal

1 year

This is right and proper. It is a risk for the EU to have a large financial center nearby that is not regulated by EU. Reshoring of financial activities to EU - and crucially: EU oversight - should continue.

Chris Grey 🇺🇦

@chrisgreybrexit

1 year

"The City ... is suffering a slow puncture. Business and jobs have been leaching away to other European centres and in some cases to New York. It is not all because of Brexit, although that has been a significant factor."

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Elena Adaal

@ElenaAdaal

1 year

@johnredwood The EU is saying friendly things about UK all the time. Brexit was an unfriendly act, and nothing nice can be said about it.

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Elena Adaal

@ElenaAdaal

2 years

@Gilesyb @DavidHenigUK As to 'what must happen': its not that difficult: UK Tories should be - for now - voted out of everything, UK should behave reliable again (adhere to agreements), strengthen its civil structure and update its political institutions.

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Elena Adaal

@ElenaAdaal

10 months

@RichardGCorbett For sure this should not happen: It is unwise for EU to have these critical tasks outsourced to an actor outside of the regulatory sphere of the EU. The sooner market access from UK to EU is barred the better.

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Elena Adaal

@ElenaAdaal

4 years

@benhabib6 @DavidGHFrost It is not only that the UK government seems unable to take action, they actually ARE unable to take action. Brexit means Brexit. UK left and its over.

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Elena Adaal

@ElenaAdaal

4 years

@tconnellyRTE Interesting to see that UK government has contractually stipulated that all UK produced vaccines go to UK, while at the same time being up in arms if the EU does the same.

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Elena Adaal

@ElenaAdaal

2 years

@Mij_Europe @EmmanuelMacron You could add to that most of the UK right wing press openly rooting for a Macron defeat a the elections. Macron has in fact been quite pro-UK, likely more than others would have been. i.a. his congratulations to the queen showed this.

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Elena Adaal

@ElenaAdaal

2 years

@BestForBritain Sure this is all heartbreaking, but there were warnings - especially warnings about Brexit and Johnson - all around. All could have informed themselves, or they could have chosen to listen to experts that were informed.

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Elena Adaal

@ElenaAdaal

8 months

@JulienHoez It sounds very well in German. This willl be noted.

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