Dublin (PA Media\/dpa) – Ireland’s foreign affairs minister has accused the British government of dismissing EU solutions to the Northern Ireland Protocol before they are published.<\/p>\n
Simon Coveney also accused the British Government of \u00abshifting the playing field\u00bb away from solving issues around the controversial protocol.<\/p>\n
He made the comments in response to the Brexit minister Stephen Barclay’s demand to drop the role of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) from the Northern Ireland Protocol.<\/p>\n
Lord Frost, Britain’s chief Brexit negotiator, is to give a speech on Tuesday in which he will make removing the role of the ECJ in Northern Ireland a red-line issue.<\/p>\n
\u00abEach time that the European Union comes forward with new ideas and new proposals to try and solve problems, they are dismissed before they are released, and that’s happening again this week,\u00bb Coveney said.<\/p>\n
He said European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic and his negotiating team had spent months preparing a package to resolve ongoing issues, which they will publish on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
In a tweet at the weekend, Coveney argued that the British government had created a new \u00abred line\u00bb over the ECJ.<\/p>\n
He admitted that his tweet in response to the comments was \u00abnot very
\ndiplomatic,\u00bb but said it was \u00abnot very diplomatic\u00bb of the British government to brief the British media.<\/p>\n
\u00abDavid Frost accuses me of raising issues on social media. It’s a bit rich, quite frankly, because he is briefing British media effectively to say ‘Well, the EU can make the changes that they need to make, but actually it’s not enough, we want more’, and now it’s the ECJ is the main issue,\u00bb Coveney told RTE’s Morning Ireland radio programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dublin (PA Media\/dpa) – Ireland’s foreign affairs minister has accused the British government of dismissing EU solutions to the Northern Ireland Protocol before they are published. Simon Coveney also accused the British Government of \u00abshifting the playing field\u00bb away from solving issues around the controversial protocol. He made the comments in response to the Brexit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-actualidad"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t