nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210724-015854-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210723s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210724-015854-0 doi eng 342 23 Lock, Tobias Author aut Towards a Radical Revision of the Northern Ireland Protocol? Lock, Tobias Verfassungsblog 2021-07-23 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The UK Government’s Command Paper released on 21 July 2021 urges a renegotiation of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, which forms part of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement. The EU has already indicated that a renegotiation is out of the question. In fact, this blog post argues that it would be constitutionally impossible for the EU to agree to the UK’s proposals without agreeing to a radical revision of the Protocol that would endanger the achievement of its overall aims. In addition, the invocation of Article 16 (the safeguards clause) as discussed in the Command Paper would not resolve the underlying issues either and the UK Government knows this. But that leaves the question: What is the Command Paper really about? funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 brexit Northern Ireland Withdrawal Agreement Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/towards-a-radical-revision-of-the-northern-ireland-protocol/ raw object