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The European Union on Wednesday threatened Britain with retaliatory action if it refuses to implement post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland, after talks to solve the simmering row broke up without agreement. - 'Frank and honest' - London and Brussels signed a last-gasp trade deal in December, nearly four years after its landmark Brexit vote and just weeks before Britain left the European single market and customs union.
DUP leader Edwin Poots has said the time for talking about “Protocol problems” is over and has called for action.
Speaking after a meeting of the joint UK/EU committee on the implementation of the Protocol, he said the Northern Ireland Protocol should be scrapped.
Speaking after the same meeting, deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill challenged the UK Government to “honour its commitments” on the Protocol.
She said progress had been made in some areas during the meeting, including on the supply of medicines from Great Britain, but there was “still a way to go” on other sticking points.