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By JULIAN SHEA in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-07-23 09:36 Share CLOSE Renegotiation of agreement looks unlikely as bloc stands ground in face of demands Another post-Brexit political confrontation between the United Kingdom and the European Union looks likely as the bloc stands its ground in the face of UK demands that significant changes be made to the agreement reached last December. The status of Northern Ireland, which has remained in the EU single market, is once again the issue at stake. Its position is covered by a part of the agreement known as the Northern Ireland Protocol, which gets round the need for a hard physical border between the British region and EU member state the Republic of Ireland, with there instead being an invisible customs frontier running down the Irish Sea, separating the island of Ireland from Great Britain.

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