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Is to say, "i need to redraft everything." if you see this as a fight where there has to be a winner and a loser, maybe. but maybe you should say to yourself, you know, "i'm a very experienced diplomat," you've been in this game in the eu commission and elsewhere for decades — you know that, in the end, there is always a compromise out there somewhere. if one takes the british proposals now, with the red and the green channels, doing away with a lot of the oversight which you guys now demand on the trade between great britain and northern ireland, if you look at their proposals, look at your...

Last autumn, in october. for which we have had very little reaction from the... well, you've got a reaction now. the british government says, "you know what, we're "actually going to have to completely rethink this. "we're going to walk away from the protocol as it "currently is constituted, but we are going to put "forward, through legislation, our own measures, which will "meet the eu's demands. "it will clarify and simplify trade between great britain "and northern ireland, but it will also safeguard "the eu single market." and they'll do that by creating these red and green channels, so th...

Ukraine candidate status. you're portuguese. your prime minister is still deeply sceptical. has he now changed his mind? i don't speak for portugal here, but let me be very clear about one point. what we are... the message we are passing to our ukrainian friends and, for that matter, for our moldovan friends as well, is a very clear one, and to the georgian ones as well — you belong to the european family. and this is the most important political message you can send. on top of that, the european commission, which is responsible under the treaties to provide an opinion, and if the european c...

Coherent security strategy and capacity of its own. strategic autonomy, he calls it. isn't the truth of what we've seen unfold in this crisis, that it is nato, where the americans work with the europeans, that really matters in terms of safeguarding european security? because on all sorts of things, from sanctions to weapons supplies, within europe itself, there are actually deep divisions. you know something, steve? if president putin's goal was to divide the west... ..if it was to weaken nato, if it was to divide the european union, if it was to divide the eu from the uk, it totally failed. ...

But it comes back to the point that, in the end, you have to decide, if you're in the british government, what's more important, a big row — i mean, i'm not belittling it — a very significant fallout with the european union over the treaty, or peace and stability in northern ireland. which is more important? and in london, frankly, they've decided that they have to safeguard peace and stability in northern ireland first. we believe the two are compatible and the proof is that we agreed on this protocol as the way exactly to protect the good friday agreement, so we need to continue to work ...