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EU commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič showing off three pages of draft certificates that businesses would need to fill out if the UK agreed with the EU on simplifying the protocol rules (Photo: European Commission)

EU takes legal action against UK over post-Brexit trade

The EU took legal action against London on Wednesday (15 June) after the UK earlier this week put forward legislation scraping parts of the EU-UK agreement governing post-Brexit trade in Northern Ireland.

The EU Commission decided to continue a previously suspended legal probe against the UK for not implementing parts of the protocol on certificates on agri-food products.

That infringement procedure was launched in March 2021, but...

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

EU commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič showing off three pages of draft certificates that businesses would need to fill out if the UK agreed with the EU on simplifying the protocol rules (Photo: European Commission)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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