In Luxembourg on 21 June, the EU27 ministers for European Affairs expressed their “solidarity” with Northern Ireland and their “total unity” on the issue of the Northern Ireland Protocol, which is “indispensable” and “non-negotiable”, as the French minister for Europe, Clément Beaune, declared at the end of the meeting.
The Northern Ireland Protocol, which is being challenged by a UK bill (see EUROPE B12972A3), was the subject of a briefing with Commission Vice-President...