ANALYSIS: Diplomatic relations noticably deteriorate at peace-building funds' launch

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Contrastingly, relations between the secretary of state and Maros Sefcovic are said to be "very warm", with the two men travelling on to a later engagement together.
54% : Most will concede that previously an announcement on PEACE fund wouldn't have attracted a great deal of media attention but the presence of European Commission executive vice-president Maros Sefcovic, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris ensured a sizeable press pack at the Newforge Community Development Hub in south Belfast.
52% : The UK's departure from the EU put the funds in doubt but the British government has stepped up, with assistance from Dublin and Brussels, to ensure the momentum built over the past quarter century is maintained.
51% : Around three-quarters of the money - £730 million - comes from the UK exchequer, with the EU and the Irish government making up the remainder of the £858m that targets Northern Ireland and the Republic's border counties.
50% : PEACEPLUS takes over where its EU-funded predecessors left off after Brexit.

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