{"id":117650,"date":"2021-03-19T14:13:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=117650"},"modified":"2021-03-19T14:13:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:13:34","slug":"pandoras-box-of-northern-ireland-could-be-opened-unless-eu-changes-brexit-deal-loyalists-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/markets\/pandoras-box-of-northern-ireland-could-be-opened-unless-eu-changes-brexit-deal-loyalists-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"'Pandora's box' of Northern Ireland could be opened unless EU changes Brexit deal: loyalists warn"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (Reuters) – Northern Ireland\u2019s 1998 peace agreement is under threat and a \u201cPandora\u2019s box\u201d of protest and political crisis will be opened unless the European Union agrees to significant changes to the Brexit deal, a senior loyalist warned on Friday.<\/p>

Loyalist graffitis are seen with messages against the Brexit border checks in relation to the Northern Ireland protocol at the harbour in Larne, Northern Ireland February 12, 2021. REUTERS\/Clodagh Kilcoyne<\/figcaption>

The 1998 accord, known as the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement, ended three decades of violence between mostly Catholic nationalists fighting for a united Ireland and mostly Protestant unionists, or loyalists, who want Northern Ireland to stay part of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

David Campbell, chairman of the Loyalist Communities Council, which represents the views of loyalist paramilitaries, said he was calling for dialogue with the EU and Ireland to change the Northern Irish Protocol that he said had breached fundamental principles of the 1998 deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re saying there is a window of opportunity for constructive dialogue to see if we can actually get a workable solution, and I\u2019ve no doubt we could get a workable solution, but it does require Brussels and Dublin to return to honouring the core guarantees of the (Belfast) Agreement,\u201d Campbell told Reuters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it doesn\u2019t happen, then they are opening a Pandora\u2019s box which leads to significant protest, to the bringing down of the Northern Ireland executive and then into a significant political crisis,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n

Loyalist paramilitary groups told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier this month that they were temporarily withdrawing support for the peace agreement due to concerns over the Brexit deal.<\/p>\n

The EU and Ireland say there is no reason to change the Brexit divorce deal which was signed by Johnson and is now an international treaty, though unionists say the negotiations failed to take account of their community.<\/p>\n

\u201cLoyalists are extremely angry right across the community,\u201d Campbell said, adding that the community was more angry than at any other time since the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, which gave Dublin a consultative role in the governance of Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an anger that transcends class and age groups – 80-year-olds are just as vexed as teenagers are – so it has succeeded in uniting all the disparate unionist groups and parties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

ANGER RISING<\/h2>\n

Unionists say the Brexit deal is unfair as it prevents a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland but effectively cuts Northern Ireland off from the rest of the United Kingdom by creating a border in the Irish sea.<\/p>\n

Campbell said that as such, the Brexit deal was one-sided and breached the principles of the 1998 deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe peace agreement is certainly under threat,\u201d Campbell said, adding that the devolved power-sharing government of Northern Ireland, which requires the support of politicians representing both communities to function, was likely to collapse.<\/p>\n

Northern Ireland\u2019s devolved government and assembly have suffered periodic breakdowns during previous crises since 1998.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless there are changes, I can\u2019t see the Northern Ireland executive being sustained beyond the ending of the current pandemic,\u201d he said, adding that there would be significant protests over coming months and going into the summer.<\/p>\n

So is Northern Ireland on the brink of violence?<\/p>\n

\u201cI was one of the unionist negotiators in the talks and for 20-odd years we have worked constructively together and you now potentially face the undoing of that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current leaderships of the loyalist organisations are under extreme pressure from, let\u2019s just say, the young Turks who perhaps see an opportunity to go to war on their terms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The main loyalist paramilitary groups were not formally parties to the 1998 deal, but endorsed it at the time and decommissioned their weapons in the years that followed.<\/p>\n

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