These days, finding a solution to the ‘Irish problem’ dominates the public debate and negotiations taking place behind closed doors on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.
The EU Commission’s draft protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland constitutes the only viable starting point in the absence of elaborated proposals by the UK, or the Northern Irish institutions. And yet, agreement on this draft protocol seems elusive, although it constitutes a very modest proposal – in fact too modest a proposal, as I argue in the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly.
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