The Vice-President of the European Commission for Interinstitutional Affairs, Maroš Šefčovič, arrived in London late Thursday afternoon, 11 February, to meet the British Minister Michael Gove in the framework of the Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee and the Northern Ireland protocol.
In particular, the two men had to reconsider the British request to relax the provisions of the protocol to ease the pressure on Northern Irish and British exporters.
This request was not necessarily...