{"id":304553,"date":"2021-09-09T08:41:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T08:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1478298"},"modified":"2021-09-09T08:41:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T08:41:33","slug":"widespread-criticism-as-the-dup-threatens-to-collapse-the-northern-ireland-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/09\/widespread-criticism-as-the-dup-threatens-to-collapse-the-northern-ireland-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Widespread criticism as the DUP threatens to collapse the Northern Ireland parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"
The leader of the DUP has signalled his party will collapse the Stormont Executive (parliament in the north of Ireland) within weeks if changes to Brexit\u2019s Northern Ireland Protocol are not delivered. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson also announced his party\u2019s immediate withdrawal from cross-border political institutions established on the island of Ireland under the Good Friday peace agreement.<\/p>\n
The moves are part of an intensification of the DUP\u2019s campaign of opposition to post-Brexit arrangements that have created trading barriers between Great Britain and the north of Ireland. Donaldson issued the warning on the future of Stormont in a keynote address in Belfast on the same day as European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic began a two-day visit to the north.<\/p>\n
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