Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland
(WorldNews Africa)

What has been agreed on Ireland and Northern Ireland? The EU and UK negotiators have agreed in full on the terms of the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Protocol includes all the provisions on how the so-called `backstop` solution for avoiding a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland would work. This forms part of the overall Withdrawal Agreement and will apply unless and until it is superseded, in whole or in part, by any subsequent agreement. Both the EU and the UK will use their best endeavours to conclude and ratify a subsequent agreement by 1 July 2020. As part of the Protocol, a single EU-UK customs territory is established from the end of the transition period...