Northern Ireland
24 Oct
Britain's Brexit Minister David Frost has reacted to proposed EU concessions to ease bottlenecks affecting the trade in goods to Northern Ireland from the UK mainland.
18 Oct
The measures could halve customs paperwork and checks on meat, dairy and other food products coming to Northern Ireland.
13 Oct
Less than a year since the EU and UK struck a post-Brexit deal, the sides are apparently preparing for a trade war. Tensions over the Northern Ireland Protocol have pushed things to the brink.
6 Oct
The UK has given Brussels ten days to respond to its demands over customs checkpoints in the Irish Sea. The UK's Brexit minister has told the EU to rethink the terms of its trade accord.
28 Feb
Northern Ireland dominated Brexit negotiations for years and remains a highly contentious element of EU-UK relations. The nature of the UK’s departure from the EU means the issue will not go away any time soon.
4 Feb
A post-Brexit "upsurge in sinister and menacing behavior" has caused two ports in Northern Ireland to pull their staff from border control duty.
1 Aug 2019
Northern Ireland is arguably both the most perilous, and the least soluble Brexit riddle taxing the UK prime minister. Even his more modest goal of convincing the power-sharing government to reconvene looks unlikely.
1 Nov 2018
Northern Ireland's Catholic community rejects a hard post-Brexit division of the island. But many Protestants fear that if Northern Ireland were given special status, as the EU has proposed, that could be a first step toward a united Ireland.
11 Apr 2018
On April 10, 1998, the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Belfast, putting an end to three decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
17 Sep 2017
Aleks Stanek, a fine art graduate from Northern Ireland, has run the length of the Irish border in 7 days to highlight the potential introduction of a hard border with checkpoints.
26 Jun 2017
British Prime Minister Theresa May has signed a so-called 'confidence and supply' deal with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party to prop up her minority government.
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