our europe editor katya adler says the insistence by borisjohnson that his plans to override parts of the northern ireland protocol are small is simply not believed in brussels. that s definitely not how the eu sees it. just a few moments ago, we heard from the eu s chief negotiator, and he made a reminder that, at the time, the protocol text was the best compromise solution that eu and uk negotiators could come up with to safeguard peace and stability on the island of ireland after brexit. he said there was no place here for unilateral action. he said the eu had lots of proposals as to how to deal with the kind of practical problems that have been arising from the protocol for northern ireland businesses and individuals. he said the commission would be coming forward with publishing new ideas in the coming days, but if the uk continued with this unilateral level, he said the eu would be looking now to restart legal proceedings for infringements it believes the uk has already carried o
it has been a very difficult few weeks for the eu trying to push through this six package of sanctions on russia. 0n the one hand, countries like hungary which say the effect of an oil embargo would be in the words of the prime minister, like a nuclear bomb on the hungarian economy and you have other countries like poland which say every day the eu is paying huge sums of money to russia for fuel which then goes to fund the war in ukraine. hard fronts here. people are continuing to negotiate to see if they can get some sort of compromise solution that might be given the green light today, any solution is going to take a lot of complicated details to work through. i m joined now by 0rysia lutsevych,
hand, countries like hungary which see the effect of an oil embargo would be in words of the prime minister, like a nuclear bomb on the hungarian economy and you have other countries like poland which see every day the eu is paying huge sums of money to russia for fuel which then goes to fund the war in ukraine. hard fronts here. people are continuing to negotiate to see if they can get some sort of compromise solution that might be given the green light today, any solution is going to take a lot of complicated details to work through. i know you will keep a close eye on developments in brussels. thank you both very much. let s talk about ukraine. justin let s talk about ukraine. crump is a military analyst and chief executive of sibylline,
of trying to say, we may need more time, there is this kind of tension going on, but it really has been left to the wireless carriers, who have spent 80 billion trying to buy at the sort of airwaves they need to deploy the service and the airlines on the other side will warning the potential fallout from this could be catastrophic. i5 potential fallout from this could be catastrophic- catastrophic. is there a sort of compromise catastrophic. is there a sort of compromise solution - catastrophic. is there a sort of compromise solution that i catastrophic. is there a sort of. compromise solution that could catastrophic. is there a sort of i compromise solution that could be reached to sort this out? i compromise solution that could be reached to sort this out? compromise solution that could be reached to sort this out? i think on the side of reached to sort this out? i think on the side of the reached to sort this out? i think on the side of the mobile reached to sort this out?
there had been speculation that perhaps russia was trying to come to an accommodation with ukraine in terms of what was happening in the eastern half of the country there. i mean, what do you think will happen in terms of ukraine stepping up? i mean this is a country on the brink. yes, paula, that s an insightful observation. i m glad you pointed to that direction. because what is this all about, the core issue is eastern ukraine, the separatist region in dansk. that was in 2015 and 2016 outlining a compromise solution that would require russia to get out and its military support. what would also require ukraine, the government in kiev, to grant some regional autonomy and some degree of self-government including language rights and cultural rights for those eastern regions. now, kiev, that is ukraine, signed those accords as a broad outline for a solution that has