The UK government on June 28 won a vote in the House of Commons to scrap the Northern Ireland protocol – despite heated opposition from the European Commission, whose vice-president Maroš Šefčovič called the decision a “breach of international law”. The protocol, agreed in 2019, means that goods shipped from Great Britain to Northern Ireland ...

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