there are already reports that brussels, the institutions, i guess the commission, is developing a hit list of sensitive products from britain that, for example, scotch whisky, car parts, that they could impose retaliatory tariffs on if the brits don t back down on northern ireland, and do real, quick damage to the british economy. i don t wish to comment on speculation. our focus now is to try to find jointly agreed solution. we are ready to talk if the position of the government is the one that accepts that one needs to respect the overall framework in which we are working. but i know the way brussels works. plans are being made for all sorts of eventualities. are plans being made for punitive tariffs? no, we are not hiding that, if ever the behaviour of the british government in implementing the protocol does not live up to the standards in our agreement, there are links between that and the trade and cooperation agreement that will eventually need to be applied. but we don t want.
of unilateral action, breaching of agreed commitments and desire to redraft and renegotiate the whole treaty. in the irish media, there are already reports that brussels, the institutions, i guess the commission, is developing a hit list of sensitive products from britain that, for example, scotch whisky, car parts, that they could impose retaliatory tariffs on if the brits don t back down on northern ireland, and do real, quick damage to the british economy. i don t wish to comment on speculation. our focus now is to try to find jointly agreed solution. we are ready to talk if the position of the government is the one that accepts that one needs to respect the overall framework in which we are working. but i know the way brussels works. plans are being made for all sorts of eventualities. are plans being made for punitive tariffs? no, we are not hiding that, if ever the behaviour of the british government in implementing the protocol does not live up to
breaching of agreed commitments and desire to redraft and renegotiate the whole treaty. in the irish media, there are already reports that brussels, the institutions, i guess the commission, is developing a hit list of sensitive products from britain that, for example, scotch whisky, car parts, that they could impose retaliatory tariffs on if the brits don t back down on northern ireland, and do real, quick damage to the british economy. i don t wish to comment on speculation. our focus now is to try to find jointly a great solution. we are ready to talk if the position of the government is the one that accepts that one needs to respect the overall framework in which we are working. but i know the way brussels works. plans are being made for all sorts of eventualities. are plans being made for punitive tariffs? no, we are not hiding that, if ever the behaviour of the british government in implementing the protocol does not live up to