Boris Johnson blames the EU in the friction over Northern Ireland

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The United Kingdom and the European Union will continue their discussions in London next week over post-Brexit tensions in the British province of Northern Ireland, for which British Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds the EU responsible.

During the weekly question-and-answer session in Parliament, the head of the Conservative government criticized the attitude of the EU, which, faced with delays in vaccine deliveries, wanted to introduce an export control mechanism that was initially supposed to concern the EU. 'Northern Ireland, before going backwards.

Boris Johnson said, It is unfortunate that the EU seems to cast doubts on the Good Friday agreement, the principles of the peace process, by appearing to call for a border on the island of Ireland.

The full entry into force of Brexit on January 1 had seen customs checks for goods between Britain and the British province of Northern Ireland - some of which were suspended earlier this week after threats against agents.

These new formalities, provided for in the Northern Irish protocol of the divorce agreement negotiated more than a year ago between London and Brussels, have been denounced as being the cause of supply problems in supermarkets.

They were originally introduced to avoid the return of a physical border between the British province and the Republic of Ireland, a member of the EU, which would have risked jeopardizing the peace process that ended in 1998 to three bloody decades between unionists and republicans.

DUP unionists, attached to maintaining Northern Ireland under the British crown, denounced the appearance of a border in the Irish Sea within the United Kingdom itself.