Sinn Féin MEP describes the protection of the North’s role in EU as vitally important
Speaking in the European Parliament today, Midlands Northwest MEP Chris MacManus called the Irish peace process “a European success story”.
“The TCA protects the Good Friday Agreement by providing a special status for the North of Ireland, but there is a democratic deficit. Elected representatives in the North of Ireland have no role to play in shaping legislation that they will be bound by. The importance of this resolution is that it calls for a dialogue between the EU and political representatives and civil society in the North of Ireland. Such a dialogue can contribute to reducing tensions and allowing the people of the whole island to define their European future together.”
Belfast-Brussels direct dialogue can help reduce tensions – Chris MacManus MEP
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Sinn Féin ensure EU commitment to direct engagement with Northern politicians
Sinn Féin MEP Chris MacManus has described his party’s progress on developing a Six County / EU channel of dialogue as “pleasing” and “vitally important” to the north’s evolution post-Brexit. Speaking from Brussels the Midlands Northwest MEP said, “I would like to welcome the draft resolution on Brexit which will be voted in the European Parliament this week.”
“It is important at this time for the Parliament to agree this new trade relationship and to demonstrate its strong commitment to the full and faithful implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement, including the Irish Protocol which Sinn Féin and The Left Group in the European Parliament played a central role in shaping.”
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Boris Johnson will probably hand out many more UK work visas to India (AFP via Getty)
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t is sometimes reported that Boris Johnson’s preferred method of decision-making is to delay matters for so long that the decision effectively makes itself. Hence the cancellation, or rather postponement, of his trade mission to India. Having no doubt been informed by his own health advisers that India was to be placed on the “red list” for travel restrictions, the prime minister could hardly press on with his trip. He could have called it off days ago, when the extreme seriousness of the situation in India first became clear, but it would have been embarrassing for him and his hosts. Covid intervened. Infection rates are rising rapidly, the vaccination programme is nowhere near complete, hospitals are becoming overwhelmed, and a new variant of the coronavirus, possibly more dangerous, is circulating; and these facts are connected. The questions of wh
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The Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH), the largest Irish American organization in the US, has written to President Joe Biden urging him to fill the vacant Northern Ireland Special Envoy position.
The AOH wrote to President Biden on April 10, the 23rd anniversary of the singing of the Good Friday Agreement, to express their concern that increasing violence and inflammatory rhetoric by senior leaders of the Unionist community are a threat to the over two decades of peace the Good Friday Agreement has delivered.
Prior to the AOH letter, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said during a press briefing on April 8 that the Biden Administration is concerned by the violence in Northern Ireland, and we join the British, Irish, and Northern Irish leaders in their calls for calm.
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