• The Irish backstop (formally the Northern Ireland Protocol) was a proposed protocol to a draft Brexit withdrawal agreement that never came into force...
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    matter?". The Irish Times. Grant, Charles (29 July 2019). "On @Channel4News with @HenryNewman & @krishgm I said EU wd not abandon Irish backstop because it...
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    replaced the backstop with a new protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland. In the formally negotiated Withdrawal Agreement, the 'Irish backstop' was removed...
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  • Look up backstop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Backstop may refer to: Backstop (baseball), a screen behind a field's home plate Catcher, a defensive...
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    negotiate a new trade deal between the EU and UK. On the Irish border question, the Irish backstop was appended to the agreement setting a fall-back position...
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    amendment to the Brexit Next Steps motion, which called for "the Northern Ireland backstop to be replaced with alternative arrangements to avoid a hard border...
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    31 October 2019 with or without a deal, and promised to remove the Irish backstop from the withdrawal agreement. Johnson declared his intention to re-open...
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    Retrieved 9 June 2017. "Irish backstop". Belfasttelegraph. Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2019. Irish backstop is ‘toxic,’ would...
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  • trade under rules set by the World Trade Organization (WTO). Backstop See Irish backstop Blind Brexit A scenario where the UK leaves the EU without clarity...
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  • for the "Irish backstop" to be removed from the proposed withdrawal agreement. The new Northern Ireland Protocol replaced the Irish backstop as part of...
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    the self-declared 32-county Irish Republic. On 6 December 1922 (a year after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty), Ireland was partitioned. At that time...
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    The Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, sometimes referred to as the Irish border or British–Irish border, runs for 499 km (310 mi) from Lough...
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    have encouraged his wife to seek changes to the deal by removing the Irish backstop, in order for it to be approved by parliament with the support of the...
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    June 2018, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that there had been little progress on the Irish border question—on which the EU proposed a backstop, to come...
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    amended her withdrawal agreement, stripping the Irish Backstop not of its essential provisions—Northern Ireland would remain a customs point of entry for the...
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    the Irish border arose due to the Brexit withdrawal agreement. In the Brexit negotiations potential issues were considered with the Irish backstop. In...
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    intention to re-open negotiations on the withdrawal agreement, with the Irish backstop removed as a pre-condition. UK and EU negotiators met for the first...
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  • Ireland". RTÉ. Retrieved 16 June 2019. "Irish backstop plan". www.politicshome.com. 25 February 2020. "Ireland on Brexit". Bloomberg.com. 14 December 2018...
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    Taoiseach, Johnson's Irish counterpart), the UK and EU agreed to a revised deal, which replaced the backstop. In the new Northern Ireland protocol, the entire...
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    plan and Irish backstop, and as Prime Minister renegotiated the Brexit withdrawal agreement and replaced the latter with the Northern Ireland Protocol...
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    agreement Brexit divorce bill Fish for finance Irish backstop No-deal Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol Northern Ireland Protocol Bill Windsor Framework Legislation...
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    independence Next Northern Ireland Assembly election#Opinion polling Opinion polling for the 2024 Irish general election "Irish reunification". The Institute...
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    negotiations on the withdrawal agreement, but set as a pre-condition that the Irish backstop must be scrapped before doing so, a condition to which the EU had declared...
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    Simon Coveney (category 21st-century Irish farmers)
    Brexit backstop, says Coveney". Irish Times. 27 January 2019. Archived from the original on 5 September 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2019. "Irish citizens...
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  • the Irish border – Effect on Ireland's UK/EU border Irish Sea border – Trade border between Northern Ireland and Great Britain Northern Ireland protocol –...
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  • businesses and households even during challenging times. Moreover, as a backstop to support the functioning of the markets the Bank of England stands ready...
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  • invocation negotiations European Union (Withdrawal) Bill 2019 Chequers plan Irish backstop Brexit withdrawal agreement meaningful vote European Union (Withdrawal...
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  • joint authority by the UK and Irish governments over Northern Ireland was raised again in 2017 after the Irish backstop issue during the negotiations...
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    support of draft Brexit withdrawal deal". The Irish Times. Retrieved 28 July 2021. "Agreeing to the backstop was a huge strategic error - Nicholson". Ulster...
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  • further. The UK had the most opt-outs of any member state, and along with Ireland was the only member to acquire an opt-out of the Schengen Area agreement...
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