The EU is damaging the peace process in the Northern Ireland Protocol, Poots says

European Union Northern Ireland Through post-Brexit action, the region’s Minister of the Environment said.

former DUP Leader Edwin Poots answered the question at Staumont About the Northern Ireland Protocol and the decision to withdraw his party from the north and south political groups.

Mr Putz told MLA that the damage caused by the boycott of a cross-border agency would be less than the damage currently caused by the Protocol.

The Protocol was agreed by the United Kingdom and the EU as a way to maintain the free-flowing borders of Ireland after Brexit.

Northern Ireland unionists are strongly opposed to the condition of seeing additional checks for goods arriving in this region from other parts of the United Kingdom.

As part of the DUP’s opposition campaign, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson announced last week the immediate withdrawal of the party from the cross-border political institutions established on the island of Ireland under the Good Friday Agreement.

Alliance MLA’s John Blair asked Mr. Putz what he thought of the environmental impact of the withdrawal from this north-south organization.

Mr. Putz said: “It will have much less impact than the Northern Ireland Protocol. More than 70% of the goods that reach Northern Ireland come from the United Kingdom, about 419,000. HGV Yearly.

“”Man You can’t believe that you can drive a coach and a horse in an east-west relationship without any impact. “

Ulster Unionist MLA Rosemary Barton asked at a recent inter-Korean summit whether the Protocol had discussed the difficulties it brought to Northern Ireland’s agriculture.

Mr. Putz said:

“I think I’ve been in contact with colleagues in the UK government more than 50 times in writing and over the phone, not to mention the dozens of meetings that have raised the difficulties posed by the Protocol.