“The UK government is increasingly examining the impact of its commitment to this previous 1998 agreement. It`s true. Dan O`Brien, Ireland`s most renowned economic economist, told the Sunday Independent on 10 March 2019: “It is clear that Dublin and Brussels did not reflect on the constitutional dimension of the backstop when they put it on the table sixteen months ago. Too slowly, but in the end, the government has found that the democratic consent of the people of Northern Ireland is a crucial issue for all the new rules imposed by the EU. That is why the Attorney General of Brussels examined the 1999 Mathews/Gibraltar case, which raised the same issue in a different context. Earlier this year, Lord Trimble wrote an analysis for the Policy Exchange think tank, in which he argued that the Irish backstop plans contained in Theresa May`s proposed withdrawal agreement would destroy the Good Friday agreement. We are aiming for a judicial review of the backstop of the withdrawal agreement, which was approved by the Prime Minister in November but was rejected by Parliament in January, in order to get the government to use the right channels as part of the Good Friday Agreement to find solutions with Ireland and the EU. Despite the Commission`s broad mandate to negotiate the terms of the UK`s withdrawal, these powers do not include negotiating changes in the areas covered by the agreement. In the event of difficulties, they must be dealt with by the parties to the agreement – that is, either between the parties in Northern Ireland or the two governments. There can be no exception to sovereignty or the use of force. This case is so sensitive that the Republic, when it agreed in 2011 to accept the mandatory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, did so on all matters other than those concerning Northern Ireland.

Lord Trimble said that claims that the UK`s internal market law would break the agreement and destabilize the peace process were “shameful and imprecise” and that those who so claimed to “slam the bones of the IRA.” The work programme and the repeal of the backstop in its current form could retain the remaining elements of the agreement until March 29. Work could then continue over the implementation period, which will continue until December 31, 2020. “The part of the agreement that you have to deal with with with caution is cross-border agreements, and we need to do it successfully. Trimble, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with SDLP leader John Hume for his work on the 1998 agreement, said the backstop had emerged on the basis of fears that “Ireland could become a backdoor into which goods that do not meet regulatory standards enter.”