EU vs. Großbritannien: Brexit und Folgen

[Schneemann]

Es ist in gewisser Weise durchaus erstaunlich, dass ausgerechnet die Vereinigten Staaten, die ja unter Donald Trump dem Brexit nicht abgeneigt gegenüberstanden (allerdings aus wirtschaftlichen bzw. eigennützigen Gründen), sich derzeit sehr kühl verhalten - und sogar indirekt Drohungen an die Adresse Großbritanniens richten -, was das Vorhaben Londons angeht, das Nordirland-Protokoll zu kippen. Genau genommen stellt sich Washington hier sogar hinter Brüssel, was es bislang nur sehr, sehr selten gab.

White House warns Truss over efforts to ‘undo’ Northern Ireland protocol

Biden administration says undoing the protocol would not be ‘conducive’ to a trade deal between the UK and US

The Biden administration has sent Liz Truss a message on her second day in office warning against “efforts to undo the Northern Ireland protocol”. The warning came from the lectern in the White House briefing room, where spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about new British prime minister Truss’s first phone call with Joe Biden and whether a US-UK trade deal was discussed. [...]

“There’s no formal linkage on trade talks between the US and the UK and the Northern Ireland protocol, as we have said, but efforts to undo the Northern Ireland protocol would not create a conducive environment, and that’s basically where we are in the dialogue,” Jean-Pierre said.

“Not conducive to a trade deal” is the administration’s established position on British threats, spearheaded by Truss, to pass legislation negating part of the Northern Ireland protocol. The protocol is the UK’s deal with the EU on how to square Brexit with an open border between the two Irelands established by the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement. The US helped broker that agreement and there is adamant bipartisan opposition to any move that might jeopardise it.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/202...d-protocol

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