Northern Ireland celebrates without jubilation this Monday the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. Agreement allowed the British province to end a conflict of almost thirty years and caused the death of 3,600 people. In the years following the peace agreement, paramilitary groups were disarmed, the military border dismantled and British troops left. But a quarter of a century later, this is not the time to celebrate, between political deadlock and security concerns, says Fabrice Mourlon of the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University.
Twenty-five years after the end of the conflict in Northern Ireland, it seems more fragile than ever. As an indirect consequence of Brexit, the question of the border.. Northern Ireland Protocol, Windsor Framework Agreement, Sausage Wars. In "relative peace" since the signing, in 1998, of the Good Friday Agreement, the level of terrorist alert was raised to "severe" by the British services on March 28. Police vehicles were targeted by firebombs during an illegal demonstration of Republicans in Londonderry on Monday 10 April.
Britain’s King Charles III arrived in Northern Ireland on Tuesday as part of a UK tour to receive condolences after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. FRANCE 24 speaks to Fabrice Mourlon, a…