EU must not be fooled by British over grace periods extension
Speaking in response to the British government decision to unilaterally extend the supermarket grace period agreed in December, Martin Schirdewan, Co-President of The Left Group in the European Parliament and member of the UK Coordination Group, said: “The idea of the grace periods agreed in December between Michael Gove and EU Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič was to allow the British government to put in place the systems, and supermarkets and retailers to make the necessary adjustments to their supply chains, required by the Irish Protocol. This has not happened.” “The ver...