President Biden is visiting Northern Ireland to celebrate 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement, but post-Brexit politics have contributed to new problems.
American grit was essential to getting Northern Ireland’s warring sides to make peace 25 years ago with the Good Friday Agreement.
“President Biden is continuing on in a long tradition of American presidents who’ve maintained an interest in the peace process in Northern Ireland,” she said. “They see themselves as co-guarantors of the Good Friday Belfast Agreement, which means that they are particularly keen to see the British-Irish relationship be a good one and a close one.”
The against-the-odds agreement struck on April 10, 1998, committed armed groups to stop fighting, ended direct U.K. rule and set up a Northern Ireland legislature and government with power shared between British unionist and Irish nationalist parties.Britain and the European Union finally reach a post-Brexit agreement that will allow goods to flow freely to Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K.
In order to maintain an invisible border between Northern Ireland and the republic — a key pillar of the peace process — new customs checks were imposed for goods entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K. That angered unionists, who said the new rules undermined Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom.
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