27 February 2023 at 15:24 BBC: Agreement on the Northern Ireland Protocol The BBC reports that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have agreed. The news agency Reuters does the same. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is in London to hold talks with Sunak on the disputed Northern Ireland Protocol, which has been a long-standing issue of contention. The UK and the EU have been negotiating for months about the Northern Ireland Protocol, which was negotiated when the UK left the EU in 2020. The disputed protocol entails, among other things, that goods sent from the other countries in the UK to Northern Ireland must are controlled to prevent them taking the back route across the Irish border and into the EU’s internal market. Thus, in practice, there is a border control on goods that are moved between two British areas.
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