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Open Europe’s Stephen Booth writes that the UK Government could not possibly agree to this EU withdrawal text, which would effectively cede sovereignty over Northern Ireland to Brussels by default. The EU cannot simply disregard inconvenient political commitments agreed – by both sides – in December. Brussels now risks creating a serious political mess.

Both the UK and the EU say they want to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. But with no agreement over how this should be achieved, the issue again threatens to collapse the wider UK-EU negotiations, just as it did in December. The December deal largely fudged the issue in a joint report, with a compromise that contained inherent contradictions.

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