On Thursday 9th September Sir Jeffrey Donaldson gave a keynote speech regarding the NI Protocol. The speech comes as the European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič begins a two-day visit to Northern Ireland during which he will hold talks with political and business leaders.
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The search for “Brexit breakthroughs” has been a familiar one since 2016. Five years since the referendum and a Withdrawal Agreement and Trade and Co-Operation Agreement later, the UK’s current and future relationship with the EU continues to greatly exercise decision makers.
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When the UK left the European Union, it left behind access to EU structural funding beyond 2020. Locally this is a loss of around £600 million per year. In the last few weeks, the UK Government launched its response - the UK Community Renewal Fund—a one-year pilot of distributing £220 million and which is meant to inform the design of the much-heralded UK Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF).
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Three years without a government, set against the backdrop of Brexit drawing ever closer, there was a palpable sense of cautious optimism when a deal was announced this time last year by the then Secretary of State, Julian Smith, and his counterpart in the Republic, Simon Coveney, heralding a “New Decade, New Approach”.
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We’ve seen deadlines come and go before. Brexit observers will remember only too well the high-noon deadlines of EU summits, extensions, ‘flextensions’ (remember those?) and various attempts to both ‘intensify’ and ‘dedramatise’ negotiations, that dominated late 2018 and much of 2019.
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