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European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic will hold a news conference on Wednesday afternoon in which he will outline Brussels’s decision on British proposals for the Northern Ireland Protocol. Mr Sefcovic is expected to announce the EU will scrap up to 50 percent of customs checks on British goods entering Northern Ireland. The same rules will likely also apply to meat and plants.
The moves come a day after UK Brexit minister Lord David Frost demanded a new protocol because he claimed the one he had originally negotiated was “not working”.
Speaking on Sky News, Oliver Dowden, Conservative Party chairman, said the EU announcement would be “welcome” and promised “the government as a whole will engage fully, constructively with these proposals.”
“It is important that there is fundamental change to the Northern Ireland Protocol so we’ll be looking to see that, but let’s see exactly what the EU comes up with,” he added.
MrSefcovic’s speech is expected to commence at 5:30pm.
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