As the UK inches ever closer to triggering the clause to solve the impasse over the Northern Ireland Protocol-fears are growing of a looming trade war between the two could erupt.... The BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg reported yesterday that Boris Johnson" looks set to trigger" the clause of the Brexit withdrawal agreement.It would allow the UK to unilaterally suspend aspects of the withdrawal. The EU has already warned that there will be consequences should the clause be triggered-spa

The attack came after Irish broadcaster RTE noted that the country is currently receiving €915million from the EU recovery fund.... They leave out the fact that Irish taxpayers are liable for €18. 7bn in the EU recovery fund.... ” Speaking with a viewpoint of similar British frustration, Malcolm Hill wrote: “ We had that problem for years with the EU trying to convince the British people what a wonderful job they were doing with projects over the UK....

Zhao Lijian said: “ If the US continues to play the Taiwan card, it will surely bring game-changing and huge risks to China-US relations.” Speaking from the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing, spokesman Ma Xiaoguang said “ Taiwan has no right to join the United Nations.” Explaining his reasoning he said: “ The United Nations is an international governmental organisation composed of sovereign states… Taiwan is a part of China.” The open and frank statement came following US Secretary Anthony Blinke

Bosses at Dublin Port said too much land had been set aside to deal with shipments to Britain.... We are not against rail freight but the challenge we have is the land area we have. MUST READ: Biggest Brexit losing EU countries exposed in new report “ Dublin Port did not take a decision to stop rail freight.... We were the ones to build a rail siding that facilitated that service.“ Everybody wants more and more within this footprint.“ We have been lucky this summer; the weather has been good,

”@ pfconn believed the calls from the Lagon Valley MP for another election was ironic. They tweeted: “ The irony.... “ The DUP want a hard border; that's the only show in town for them.” Duncan Kelly believes that an election being called would bring an end to the DUP. They tweeted: “ Let it happen!... “ His own will turn on him and may well mean the end of him and his party!...

The woman, named Linda tried to cross the border between Gibraltar and Spain.... Due to the changes in the freedom of movement following Brexit, all British passport holders must now have their documents stamped as they enter and leave and EU Schengen states. The Schengen agreement is designed to allow borderless travel between 26 of Europe’s nations. Despite Linda visiting back in June, passport officials failed to stamp her documents when she left. When she tried to visit again in September,

Ray Bassett was speaking at a time when Mr Martin was struggling to contain the fallout from efforts by Sinn Fein to topple Foreign Minister Simon Coveney.... Mr Coveney, the right-hand man of former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, is facing accusations of “ cronyism ” relating to the appointment of Katherine Zappone as a UN special envoy. And he claimed the bickering had left Mr Martin weakened and preoccupied-and with little option other than to fall into line with Brussels. Sinn Fein TD Matt Carthy

The comment came during a closely-watched meeting with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, in Rome, meant to repair fractured ties after a rift over an agreement to provide Australia with submarines.... I was under the impression that certain things had happened that had not happened." READ MORE: Who is France's Brexit-hating' attack-dog' Clément Beaune?... We're at one of those inflection points in world history....