Hello and welcome to the Eurointelligence podcast. I'm Wolfgang Munchau and with me,

Susanne Muncheng and Jack Smith. Today we want to talk about the situation in Northern Ireland,

following the warning by David Frost that the UK may trigger Article 16. And we will talk about

inflation and the supply chain crisis.

Zosanna, you wrote this morning about the very tense situation that is now arising between

the UK and the EU over Northern Ireland. Where do you think this is going to lead us to?

Well, it was an opening cell that Lord Frost issued today, basically putting the gauntlet down and saying,

look, you people in Brussels, I want to see some actions here.

And we have prepared the legal text that could replace the Northern Ireland Portugal

if you're not coming up with a sustainable solution.

Now, the EU was about to issue a solution or send back on the solution next week,

which Lord Frost described as just tinkering around the edges.

So obviously, there seems to be a disagreement toward this situation. which Lord Frost described as just tinkering around the edges.

So obviously there seems to be a disagreement of what this solution should look like.

And the radical solution, meaning from the British perspective, it's relying on the command paper.

And it includes that there will be no checks on trade that is destined to be in Northern Ireland and not really be subject to be transported into the EU.

Medicine will be off, completely off the protocol.

And there is no jurisdiction for a European Court of Justice in the arbitration, which is, of course, very controversial for the EU because it's still part of...

Yes, it's mildly because, after all, Northern Ireland would still be in the single market.

So that sort of...

This is something not to be swallowed.

It cannot be accepted in any cases.

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