EU Tells UK It Will Not Renegotiate Terms of Northern Ireland’s Brexit Deal

EU Tells UK It Will Not Renegotiate Terms of Northern Ireland’s Brexit Deal
European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic looks on during the European Parliament plenary session to prepare the European Council meeting of June 24-25, in Brussels, on June 23, 2021. Aris Oikonomou/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
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The European Union has warned the UK it will not renegotiate the deal on Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements after the UK’s Brexit minister Lord David Frost demanded significant changes to the terms.

Frost said “we cannot go on as we are” but held back—for now—from taking the dramatic step of effectively suspending parts of the deal, even though he claimed the UK would be justified to do so.