The EU never understood Northern Ireland | The Spectator

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : The Commission will find it difficult to own such a large-scale error; it will not be easy to go to the Council and explain that its solution to the problem of Brexit has become an existential threat to the Good Friday Agreement, the international treaty it was tasked with protecting above all else.
51% : The resolution that Johnson was able to negotiate faced the reality of the UK's options: the 'insurance policy' became permanent and Brexit was delivered on her original terms as set out at Lancaster House, with the compromise of checks, not a border, on the Irish Sea.
50% : This was set out in legal guidelines on 29 April 2017 and elaborated in directives for the negotiations the following month:The Commission identified a political, not a technical, solution to the challenges posed by Brexit on the island of Ireland: the alignment of Northern Ireland with the EU single market and customs union.
48% : The Protocol, devised by the EU to create a political solution to the challenge of Brexit on the island of Ireland, has now failed not only on the basis of the UK's assessment but on the basis of the EU's own Guiding Principles.
47% : This was set out in the Joint Report of December 2017:May believed she had squared the circle of Brexit on the island of Ireland, but she hadn't.

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