Blog: Four non-papers and a command paper
An overview of UK-EU moves on the Protocol from July to October 2021 by Dr Milena Komarova and Prof Katy Hayward.
After the ‘series of unfortunate events’ that had characterised the EU-UK relationship since the start of the year, the summer and autumn of 2021 have seen a pattern of moves to attempt to put the Protocol (or a version of it) on a more sustainable footing. It is difficult to escape the sense that the Protocol is keeping the UK and EU in some form of continued bargaining (at times more bad-tempered than others), even though both sides would prefer to have rather less to do with each other at this stage.
Dr Dina BELLUIGI
School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work