Sep. 28 () –
The Irish Foreign Minister, Simon Coveney, said Wednesday that the British Government now has the will to engage in an “honest, open and serious” dialogue on the Northern Ireland Protocol included in the Brexit agreements.
Coveney has stressed, after a meeting with the new secretary of Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris, at Hillsborough Castle, that the messages coming from London are “quite different” from those of recent months, according to the newspaper ‘The Evening Standard’.
Thus, it has summoned the British Government to work with the European Commission to unblock the situation in Northern Ireland. “I’ve had a fantastic conversation (with Heaton-Harris),” she explained, adding that the focus of the discussions has to be on reconstruction.
“I can assure you that we will be meeting regularly again in an effort, before the end of October, to try to find the basis for an agreement that could allow an Executive to be formed to make devolved government work again for the people of Ireland. del Norte”, he said, according to the newspaper ‘The News Letter’.
The Stormont Assembly has a process ahead of it to recover the institutionality of the Northern Irish autonomous government now with the Republican party Sinn Féin at the helm, after its victory in the elections last May.
Sinn Féin, led by Michelle O’Neill, won 27 of the 90 seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly in the elections and is currently the first political force ahead of the DUP (25) and the Alliance Party (17). . The Ulster Unionists Party has nine seats and the Social Democratic and Labor Party has eight seats.
