BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 19:22:00
Any kind of eu rules to be purely voluntary and applied to businesses who were then sending goods on to the irish public and the eu and that would be for the businesses to undertake. but it doesn't look like that'll be the approach because the protocol effectively applied eu rules to goods in northern ireland. i think whilst that remains it'll be a big problem for some unionists. we will also have to have a quick look, a detailed look, at the democratic checks that will be put in place at stormont. the unionist didn't like them because it didn't necessarily require unionists to consent to them...